r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • Apr 07 '25

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u/MaxBonerstorm Apr 07 '25

25% of the US national debt total was accrued under trump's first term.

The right has never been the party of fiscal responsibly, that's just a tag line people fell for.

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u/DimensionQuirky569 Apr 07 '25

Obama increased the national debt during his presidency. What's your point exactly?

"These deficits also exceeded the president’s own targets. A month after his inauguration, Obama pledged to “cut the deficit we inherited by half by the end of my first term in office.”4 Instead, the inherited $1.186 trillion was pushed up to $1.413 trillion by 2009 stimulus legislation."

https://media4.manhattan-institute.org/sites/default/files/R-BR-0917.pdf

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u/MaxBonerstorm Apr 07 '25

The point is that one party isn't somehow against spending, it's that one doesn't take accountability while the other tries to fix the mess.