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You voted to cut government income (i.e., taxes) contributing to this.

Could we go back to that? When I never had to worry that our leaders were hell bent on destroying America? When things were affordable and people were kind to each other? When we didn’t have masked men terrorizing our fellow Americans? When the president wasn’t a convicted felon robbing us blind?

GOP deficit hawks go into hibernation during Republican administrations.

Putting Political Party over the American people did this to the USA.

5 trillion in corporate and oligarchy taxes over 8 years while placing all bond sales on hold . Is easy. So are social equity programs to insure health care for all, housing for all. Education for all and ending voters suppression. This is democracy not socialism.

Just print more cash and stop selling bonds to people who don't pay luxury or capital gains. Solve the problem in 8 years removing oligarchy from controlling all yall so called representatives lol. We know where the national debt comes from and the bond market is a scam

It's only going to go higher as taxpayers pay for the overthrow of democracy.

Gold plating is expensive!! 😂 😆 😂 😆

Pretty difficult to do with America's compulsion to increase its defense spending EVERY budget. An endless supply of new destructive "toys" doesn't benefit anyone, especially the American people who are in dire need of healthcare and affordable housing.

Yeah. That’s the Republican way

Shocking to find out the king of bankruptcy is bankrupting the country. Trump once said, “I love debt.” Well, he sure has amassed a ton of it. This article is from 2016. Some new. Most didn’t care.

Republicans did this.

Does anyone have a realistic plan that doesn’t ruin the economy, destroy paid-in social security, leave our most vulnerable to die? Because the whole GOP shtick of there is always money for billionaires and war is how we got here.

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Kinzinger has been marinated in GOP lies his whole life, and hasn't managed to shake them. So he still instinctively blames Democrats for debt, he can't help it.

15yrs ago there were serious bipartisan attempts to address the deficit, and also immigration. The key to the failure of both was the emerging Republican radicalism that dictates that everything must be fought and compromise gets you primaried. We live in the results of that sickness.

Has any real reporter ask Don Boy about the debt?

I saw it coming in 2005

Question: why are Conservatives always so worried about the debt, when they have always increased it?

It was an emergency

Insane. I feel terrible for the next generation

Do the numbers over the last half century, Republicans never were fiscally responsible, embracing Trump etc Republicans never were the party of family values, look at mortality rates of red states and pregnancy outcomes, voting against safety nets Republicans are not pro preserving sustaining life.

You're one of the good ones Adam. And unlike some here, I and many others are completely willing to forgive and embrace Republicans like you that publicly acknowledge the error of their ways.

Rose by $7.8T in 9 mths of DJT 1.0 To date in 2.0: risen by $3.8T Total: $11.6T so far w/2 yrs to go DJT responsible for about 1/3 of total $40T debt Took 210 yrs for all other 44 POTUS collectively get level of debt he's done by himself. If work & paid $1M /day, debt paid off in 109,589 yrs

Yes, you treated it like an "emergency". You voted FOR more tax cuts for wealthy Republican campaign funders, and generally voting in agreement with 🍊💩 90% of the time. Republicans are what they are.

Putin wants Trump tp bankrupt America. Then the Chinese and others will call in their loans and we're cooked.

GOP fiscal responsibility.

And then we become a 3rd world country Social Security’s Share of the U.S. National Debt As of early 2026, Social Security holds about $2.7 trillion in intragovernmental debt

That's who it will affect, while the rest of us already have nothing left to lose. The more you have, the more you'll lose. They'll game that to their advantage like everything else.

No you don’t. You know as well as I do that the debt SHOT UP TO HIGH HEAVEN since this LAST election.

As long Trump is president, you have no other outcome as bankruptcies! Trump had bankrupt a Casu! A CASINO!!

If Senator Chuck Grassley retires this year, his estimated annual pension amount will be $154,720. Yet he complains about the debt that he voted for.

Conservatives borrowed and spent us into this.

Some? 😐

How long can we sustain this type of “ever increasing” debt before the inevitable (?) collapse of something … Reality check - anyone???

Crime syndicate masquerading as government No Justice

All we need now are some media stories about a caravan of immigrants wanting to come from Guatemala and I'll have completed the conservative election year bingo card.

You only "regret" because you are no longer in a party. Money and power means nothing if you haven't got any morals. If you knew it was wrong. Then it's wrong - full stop 🙄

Just for clarity.... I don't see any increase in taxes on the wealthy and corporations here. I see gimmicks....

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They're still blaming Biden for the current state of affairs, only this time, nobody's buying the bs they're trying to sell, even the diehard MAGAsses.

Yup.

I don’t claim to understand how important the size of the debt is, but I know that those who scream about it when Dems are in power only to go completely silent for Bush or Trump are mere partisan hacks.

We’ve effectively transitioned from a fiscal policy to a "vibes-based" economy. At this point, the national debt isn't a balance sheet; it's just a high-score screen for a game we forgot how to play.

Gosh Adam- I'm so old I remember 1999- when President Clinton gave us our 1st BUDGET SURPLUS IN YEARS. Why don't we simply adjust all tax rates back to 1999 levels?

“You know, Paul, Reagan proved that deficits don't matter. We won the mid-term elections, this is our due.” Dick Cheney, 2004

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“Insolvent” is the word that comes to mind. “Why?”, is another word that comes to mind. The complete truth about the two words won’t ever spoken by anyone, ever. Rest assured that WE THE PEOPLE will be blamed.

And the debt increases ... $8 Billion dollars .... Per day.

You are an enabler and part of the problem. Fuck you.

Oh, it’s fine when a fuckin RepubliKKKan does it.

There’s still a difference. Rs increased the debt for bombs & billionaires, Ds for babies & boomers. Want to cut entitlements? Stop subsidizing Big Oil! Don’t raise taxes on average Americans. Raise it on billionaires & corporations! Hell, don’t even raise taxes on the rich. Just make ‘em pay them!

I could have told you at the time you were being conned. Republicans never cared about debts and deficits - it was all just political strategy. There's no way out of this you know. $2 trillion deficit for this shitty economy. There will be no way to spend out of the next recession.

The orange felon's administration is raising the National Debt on purpose. All part of the plan to destroy America from within.

Trump promised that it would trickle down if the USA was bigoted enough, and of course that's a stupid nasty lie. Did Fox News even report this? Do most Americans even know about this at all?

No big deal when republicans are running the country. Just blame someone else. Now, they’ll be up in arms in 2029 if a democrat is in the WH.

As the U.S. national debt surpasses $40 trillion, about one-fourth to nearly 30% of the total debt accumulated throughout American history is tied to the periods Donald Trump has been in office.

I smell 2007 all over again...coming for us.

Thank you for the knowledge!

We'll lick this problem, AK. We just need to cut taxes for rich people more! -DJT

Republican Trickledown

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Blame that scared pathological liar in our White House!!!

Don’t worry they will take it out of the poor and the former middle class and just issue the final tax cut for the 1% they will not have to pay taxes ever again

EVERYONE saw this coming. Republicans admitted 2016 billionaire & corporate tax cuts DIDN'T pay for themselves and they DID IT AGAIN in 2024. Watch Republicans start clutching their pearls about debt in the next presidential campaign. There's no blaming Obama or Biden.

If some arcade has a couple of the WHACK-A-MOLE GAMES. Could you replace the moles with of the likeness of 6-Supreme traitors and another one with the likeness of this Administration with idiot BOSS IN THE MIDDLE. You will have over a million views in 15-MIN. Thinking outside the box.

Bonespurs AKA bankrupted in chief has wrecked our economy.

i believe you also voted for trump in 2020. republicans are slow learners, i guess.

Where it’s at: $1.2 trillion in interest payments, *$2.1 trillion a year deficit* for business as usual spending. 10 year doubling rate. $0.9 per year for military. Basically you have to get rid of the military and all social spending to keep it where it is, not pay down.

Cutting taxes for millionaires and billionaires is doing nothing but supporting their addiction to money. Addiction is bad! That includes addiction to money! Anybody who has over $100 million and is still focused on earning more is clearly an addict. Why do we support this addiction?

How do you objectively look at the trajectory of the national debt since 1981 and say it’s anything but conservative policies that have done this to us? Constantly cutting taxes for the wealthy, constantly spending trillions on military. This is conservative economics, and it sucks.

Republicans are the fraudsters of all time with the fiscal conservatism. Russ vought needs to be impeached and convicted. People have died from his actions with project 2025 and DOGE

This is a 40 trillion boost to the economy + interest. The main problem is that a large part of the money was not invested into the populace, but instead wasted on the military industrial complex and corporate welfare.

Glad to hear one admit it! Most are all buck passers!

Funny how the deficit is only a big deal when a Democrat is in office, isn't it?

The conservative party keeps making it skyrocket. That's going way back before 2011.

Why do normie dems listen to lifelong Republicans like Adam or the folks at the bulwark instead of people who want real change and have caucused left? I will never understand it. I don't hate Adam or Tim Miller, I like them in general, but they are closer to Trump than to Mamdani

Its hard to address the debt when you will be punished for the fixes. Its also hard when people aren't willing to compromise

With all due respect, Obama was trying to get us out of a recession in that time frame, but Republicans tied him up in knots, always whining about the deficit. But when Trump was elected (both times), not a word from the GOP as he spends like a drunken sailor on shore leave.

During and 1yr post pandemic, every country accrued debt... So assign blame to 10 of those 14 yrs since 2011.

All of this happening while republicans continue to try to blame the Biden administration. And you know that the cult will believe it. So sad.

What happened to the old days when Republicons used to pretend they were conservative?

To refresh your memory, Clinton balanced the budget in his time in office. Then GW and a combination of Republican presidents and Congresses 'dealing' with their idiocy got their hands on things. And here we are!

Adam, this is excellent. Thank you for your reflections and honesty.

What was it under Obama again, 0?

The politicians who put this obscene debt on my kids and grandkids should be held to account. Including taking their wealth away from them. Yes I said it. Strip them of their wealth. Bad enough we had to fork up billions to bail out banks , Wall Street for the Great Recession.

USA, thank you for the recession that coming to the world this year.

Your fellow republicans treated it like an emergency because it was the Obama administration Republicans stand for nothing and lie about everything You thought they cared about fiscal responsibility!?! 🤣 I doubt you truly believe that, Adam.

Let's be honest for once, 2/3rds of this debt stems from 5 decades of Republican tax cuts plus George W Bush's 2 wars in the Middle East.

Kudos to you!!! We all make mistakes.

Why deal with it, they will just leave it to a democrat president to fix it, besides, they are too busy lining their pockets to worry about the country

Thank you for at least acknowledging your role.

Ive been convinced since e Trumps first term that the countries wealthiest ppl want the country to go into bankruptcy under Trump because they KNOW he will sell it to them for pennies on the dollar

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The national debt is only an issue to republicans when democrats are in charge, failing to realize the national debt is $40 trillion because of republican policies. Isn't that right Mr. Kinzinger?

Absolutely!!!

It's like we have a fucking chimpanzee doing brain surgery on America with a meat cleaver and no one's stopping him.

#TrumpIsACriminal

The national debt is ONLY a concern when Dems are in power. Irrefutable peak #GOPHypocrisy See also the law, the constitution, the cost of gas & groceries...

TrEaTeD iT lIkE aN eMeRgEnCy No repeal of the bush tax cuts and continued overspending on the military show a very different way you treated the debt.

Yes, you actively engaged in votes that punished to poor, women and minorities; you exposed the trickle down lie; you voted to deny human rights. Go sit down.

One starts with raising taxes on the wealthy like Eisenhower did. Then cut the military budget. A trillion dollars and we have run out of weapons against Iran in 6 months. Time to rein in defense contractors.

The GOP was corrupted way before RayGun, but his popularity made it popular to be one. Now, the Party is grossly beholden to the Christo-Fascists. Their desire is to promote chaos meant to bring on the Second Coming of Christ. Like THAT'S gonna happen. I'm no longer Christian, but I know my bible.

But 47 says it's Biden and Obama's fault.

Republicans are the worst for the Economy.

YEP! 👍

Down the toilet - American style.