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Grand Master Know It All
https://www.manhattan-institute.org/...-fiscal-legacy
A right leaning think tank's assessment of Trump's spending. If you like detailed and footnoted economic analysis, here you go.
"For those concerned with fiscal responsibility, the Trump presidency represented a colossal missed opportunity."
"Under President Trump?s watch, budget deficits reached a peacetime-record 15% of the economy and pushed the debt held by the public past 100% of the economy for the first time since World War II. In nominal dollars, the debt jumped from $14 trillion to $21 trillion and was projected to reach nearly $29 trillion by 2027."
"President Trump inherited 74 million retiring baby boomers whose escalating Social Security and Medicare costs accounted for nearly all of the $10 trillion in projected 10-year deficits. Despite having a Republican Congress... Trump opposed all structural Social Security and Medicare reforms."
"All in all, President Trump signed expensive legislation and left even modest future budget savings increasingly dependent on assumptions of faster economic growth, declining interest rates, and technical savings such as slower growth of health care costs."
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