{"id":3438,"date":"2020-09-14T21:08:04","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T21:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3438"},"modified":"2020-09-14T21:08:04","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T21:08:04","slug":"americas-national-debt-will-be-larger-than-the-economy-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3438","title":{"rendered":"America’s National Debt Will Be Larger Than the Economy Next Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“When the federal government’s fiscal year ends on the last day of September, America’s national debt will nearly match the size of the nation’s economy for the first time since the end of World War II, according to projections from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).”
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“spending under President Donald Trump surged<\/a> by $937 billion in less than four years\u2014and that was before <\/em>Congress authorized trillions in emergency coronavirus spending<\/a>. The Trump administration’s tax cuts, while well-intentioned, also added to the budget deficit because they were not offset by spending cuts<\/a>. It’s true that Trump inherited a budgetary mess, but he (and the Republicans who controlled Congress during most of his tenure) have undoubtedly made the mess worse<\/a>.” 
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“the main driver of America’s debt problem is the federal entitlement programs\u2014Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid\u2014which account for about half<\/a> of all federal spending. In a separate report<\/a> also released Wednesday, the CBO projected that the federal trust for those entitlement programs will fall by $43 billion in the current fiscal year. The economic downturn caused by the coronavirus pandemic has caused payroll taxes, which fund entitlement programs, to decline. Unless Congress takes action, those trust funds will be exhausted within 10 years, the CBO warns.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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America’s National Debt Will Be Larger Than the Economy Next Year<\/a><\/blockquote>