Trump shrugs off future debt crisis: ‘I won’t be here’
by Caitlin Yilek
| December 05, 2018 02:28 PM
President Trump is dismissing the importance of paying down the national debt, saying he won’t be in office to take blame for the nation's fiscal crisis when it becomes even more unsustainable, according to a report Wednesday.
The national debt sits at $21 trillion and counting. As a candidate, when the national debt was $19 trillion, Trump promised to erase the entire debt “over a period of eight years.â€
Senior administration officials showed Trump charts and graphics in early 2017 that illustrated a “hockey stick†spike in the debt in the coming years. Trump said the data showed the national debt would only become untenable after he left office, the Daily Beast reported.
“Yeah, but I won’t be here,†Trump said.
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