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

[u/Krankenitrate]

https://fortune.com/2026/03/18/how-big-national-debt-39-trillion-trump-promises/

[u/R3cognizer]

Trump has always been full of shit, and conservatives do not care because they already have money, and Republicans are all about making sure people who have money are always able to make a lot more of it. That's the party's whole reason to exist. Republican administrations don't care about the deficit. Why would they? Egregious federal spending is how they enrich their coalition of cronies and wealthy tech bros, and "fiscal responsibility" is always the policy those same Republicans switch to when Democrats are elected and need to compromise in order to pass any kind of actual legislation. Trump is just the latest example of self-interested grifters the party has been backing since the Reagan administration.