Is President Trump trying to bankrupt the US (part 2)?
I wrote previously asking if President Trump is trying to bankrupt the United States. The current national debt (what our country has borrowed) is about $40 trillion. Of that, $3.18 trillion has been added in Trump’s second term in office, which is not even half way through. $7.88 trillion was added from his first term . You would think this would be a priority for any president to REDUCE the national debt, since we have to pay interest on what we borrow. Currently we arepaying $1 trillion annually in interest. Trump is simply spending like a drunken sailor, probably subconsciously guided by his own history of 6 bankruptcies. Here are a few other things he’s either spending or trying to spend our tax dollars on: $275 billion to build Trump-class battleships , even though the Navy says they are a relic of the past. $100 billion going back to businesses because of illegal tariffs $11 billion for Navy icebreakers, to be built by Finland $4 billion to p...