Jan 10, 2019 ... Obama added the most debt dollar-wise, while FDR added the most percentage- wise. ... For the first nine months of his new term, Bush had to live with President  ... All presidents can employ a little sleight of hand to reduce the ... increase from  the $5.8 trillion debt at the end of Clinton's last budget, FY 2001.
May 4, 2012 ... Says President Barack Obama "added" $6.5 trillion to the national debt in his first  term, more than the $6.3 trillion added by the previous 43 presidents combined.  ... debt than the previous 43 presidents combined, chain e-mail states ... trillion --  the amount added by the end of fiscal year 2013 would still not ...
Dec 8, 2014 ... Citing the U.S. Treasury “debt to the penny” Web site, Spicer noted that the gross  ... Size at the end of his presidency: $2.9 trillion (190 percent increase) ... Obama  would have been liable for some Pinocchios if this language had come ...  increase divided by the dollar amount of GDP at the end of each term.
The history of the United States public debt started with federal government debt  incurred during the American Revolutionary War by the first U.S ... The United  States public debt as a percentage of GDP reached its highest level ... take over  and pay off all the debt that states had incurred to pay for the American  Revolution.
Oct 19, 2016 ... The debt would have risen by $3 trillion because of tax and spending ... This is  not to say that Obama had zero impact on the debt during his two terms in office.  ... And Republicans controlled the House for six years of his term and the Senate  for two years. So we rate Moore's claim as true, but misleading.
[A]t his current rate, President Obama will have added more debt to the United State of America by the end of his first term than each of the previous 43 presidents -- combined!