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The increase in US debt prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, driven by the 2017 tax cuts and higher baseline spending.
From the day was inaugurated to the end of his term, the gross federal debt rose sharply — from roughly $19.95 trillion to about $27.75 trillion, an increase of about — a figure that can be framed sli...
The national debt did not decrease under President Donald Trump; it rose materially during his term, by roughly $7.8 trillion on gross debt measures and by several trillion on other commonly used metr...
Debt held by the public rose by about $7.2 trillion over Donald Trump’s first four-year term, while gross federal (or gross national) debt rose roughly $7.8 trillion over the same period . Those headl...
The federal debt increased markedly during ’s 2017–2021 presidency: gross federal debt rose roughly $7.8 trillion over his four years in office, and analysts estimate about $8.4 trillion of ten‑year b...
The best available, sourced breakdown from the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) attributes roughly $3.6 trillion of the roughly $8.4 trillion in new ten‑year borrowing approved under ...