Apr 2, 2016 ... Of all the wildly impossible assertions made by Donald Trump, the notion that he  could eliminate the nation's $19 trillion in debt in just eight years ranks near the  top. Trump ... As we have noted repeatedly, eliminating a trade deficit does not  mean the money ends up in government coffers. (Morever, Trump ...
Nov 2, 2015 ... When Bush took office, the country was facing debt obligations of $5.8 trillion  dollars, and it increased by about the same amount by the time his second term  was up. "We've added, in the last eight years, $4 trillion of debt to the nation's  obligations,” former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said on ...
Feb 2, 2016 ... Traditionally, Congress has set a limit for how much debt the U.S. may take on,  known simply as the debt limit. But rather than put a higher limit on the debt,  lawmakers and the president have repeatedly suspended the debt limit, most  recently in November of last year through March 15, 2017. During a debt ...
The problem is, is that the way Bush has done it over the last eight years is to  take out a credit card from the Bank of China in the name of our children, driving  up our national debt from $5 trillion for the first 42 presidents -- #43 added $4  trillion by his lonesome, so that we now have over $9 trillion of debt that we are  going to ...
Sep 12, 2016 ... When you add in likely expenses for 2017 and spending obligations to veterans  over the next four decades, the total increases to nearly $4.8 trillion. .... in the  administration in the years immediately after 9/11 was, “We can go kick their butts , kill them, remake their societies, hopefully have other people pay ...
We've added, in the last eight years, $4 trillion of debt to the nation's obligations.