@LMAO With all fairness, part of the huge increase in deficit was because of the cost of providing emergency PPE's, research on vaccines, etc. Heck Trump even brought in a hospital ship for NY. Makeshift hospital facilities were erected. All that costs money. Also the enormous cost of unemployment. So .... I'm not so sure I would classify that as runaway spending. When COVID hit we encountered a huge economic burden. Was it for not? Mostly so. However at the time Trump handled the Chinese virus beautifully.
That’s partially true. But we were already on the path of insolvency even before Covid.
https://www.propublica.org/article/national-debt-trump/amp“federal finances under Trump had become dire even before the pandemic. That happened even though the economy was booming and unemployment was at historically low levels. By the Trump administration’s own description, the pre-pandemic national debt level was already a “crisis” and a “grave threat.”
The combination of Trump’s 2017 tax cut and the lack of any serious spending restraint helped both the deficit and the debt soar. So when the once-in-a-lifetime viral disaster slammed our country and we threw more than $3 trillion into COVID-19-related stimulus, there was no longer any margin for error.”
But let’s say he had no choice and the lockdowns, and the money being handed out, was the sole driver of the Trump debt. Why is he still promising more spending?
Without Covid, he probably would’ve overseen the same amount on the national debt as Barack Obama did in his two terms should Trump have won another term. And we raked Barack Obama over hot coals for the amount that he helped add to the national debt. Why do some people think that Trump should get a pass?
