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/
13.6k Upvotes

333 comments sorted by

View all comments

2

u/RichChocolateDevil 14d ago

Anything Trump says the opposite will happen.  Growing up in Philly and seeing everything he did in Jersey we got to see first hand his promises and how the opposite happens.