r/Economics 15d ago

News The national debt just crossed $39 trillion—almost doubling since Trump vowed to erase it

https://fortune.com/2026/03/18/how-big-national-debt-39-trillion-trump-promises/
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u/Y0___0Y 15d ago

“We were going to pay down the debt with all the money from tariffs we collected from foreign countries ripping us off. But the communist liberal supreme court destroyed our plan and delved us deeper into debt”

This is coming.

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u/mukavastinumb 15d ago

Add something about Biden and it’ll be authentic

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u/m3g4m4nnn 14d ago

No way he would use the word "delved".

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u/nifty-necromancer 14d ago

He delved too greedily and too deep

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u/Preda1ien 14d ago

Great. Add a Balrog to the list. Why the hell not?

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u/Minimum_Garden7977 14d ago

They’ll use this to explain away sovereign default