U.S. national debt tops $40 trillion
Just posting this because, as of yesterday, the US national debt surpassed $40 trillion for the first time. The GOP: the party of fiscal responsibility. 🥴
Karl Mathews 🌱12That is over $1 trillion in annual interest the American people, who can't have health care, food security, and so many things, pay to fund the ongoing tax cuts for the wealthy after paying for them in the first place each year.
Bettie 🦋 📎10Today is Bill Clinton's 80th birthday. He was an awesome president and has one of the highest IQs amongst all presidents. The Bj was consensual.
Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 🇨🇦 🍁 🇸🇪 🇵🇷10The Treasury just declared the U.S. insolvent. The media missed it. The Government Accountability Office can't even verify the books. Here's what Congress must do. fortune.com/2026/03/23/u...
westielover2.bsky.social10During Clinton's presidency, all my friends drove new cars. Now, they can't even gas up their old ones.
diggersurvives.bsky.social7Yep. When he left the WH we had a surplus, low unemployment & peace. GOP couldn’t stand it ‘ look where we are now. Vote blue no matter who
Crystal Ri6Maybe the #MAGAts will finally realize #DOGE was not about reducing federal spending, cutting the deficit or the debt after all.
Sande14Because Republicans. The party of fiscal responsibility, my ass.
jthrankson.bsky.social3And all Republicans can focus on was sex in the Oval Office yet they protect a convicted sexual assailant, a corrupt POTUS who is covering up his ties to Epstein- a known pedophile❗️ Go figure😡 Vote for fiscal responsibility, vote for Democrats👍 🇺🇸
Do you think a $40 trillion national debt matters to a president who has filed bankruptcy multiple times?
Arleta James11I am so angry for what this means for us - and for what we're leaving the next generations to deal with.
dabxdee.bsky.social5The real welfare queens and terrorists are not coming from other countries, they're right on Capitol Hill, holding office, wearing robes and badges, and running multi billion dollar corporations. All on your dime. Your oppression is their profession. pathological psychopaths.
Tara ❌️👑4No. We're going to be his 7th damn bankruptcy! He's looting everything for himself!
Ron - and I resist2Absolutely not. He is throwing away money that is not his. As he has shown, he doesn’t care. Except for his family, and his enrichment.
jandee924 🌻🕊️🦋2And whose motto is, "Never use your own money?"
Ben1It's likely going to end in strategic default and the majority of us are going to get destroyed financially.
Jack Cousteau ⚓️12Nobody cares about the goddam debt or deficit. Especially people in power. They use it cynically to beat down social services spending. Anyone who's serious about federal spending will be talking to us about reducing the $1 Trillion military.
Liberty and Justice for All2He's trying to bankrupt our country! #$40Trillion, #NationalDebrt
America’s national debt topped $40 trillion for the first time- an ominous milestone for an economy that sits on a shaky fiscal foundation after decades of borrowing to pay for rising costs of military, social safety net programs and Trump’s tax cuts. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/19/b...
Ben19I want every dime of his estate confiscated to pay for the illegal spending he has and is doing. It won't pay off a trillion, but it will make a statement.
Judy Weston16Trump has stolen BILLIONS to enrich himself, his family and the oligarchs he favors. He is a traitor of the worst ilk.
gladdiegoodevening.bsky.social12Gosh. If only there were some people who weren’t paying their taxes that we could make pay their taxes and pay for it.
Mary Grace9Borrowing for social safety net programs is good borrowing.
razzmataz742.bsky.social8…. What “social safety net programs”? Over 40% is solely from the orange cancer regime itself. Most of the rest is various wars in the ME other tax cuts, like Reagan and W. Don’t lie and pretend spending money on healthcare is in any way equivalent to the gop blowing everything
Don Comer6Trump is the least fiscally responsible president EVER. Where are all those Tea Party right-wingers? Swallow their tongues?:
Boom National debt reaches grim $40 trillion milestone. Here’s why that matters www.cnn.com/2026/08/19/e...
Jay33you forgot to mention that the current president of the United States is responsible for 28% of that debt. Over $11 trillion 
The Big Z26Wow, it must be serious if we're talking about the deficit when a Republican is in office.
J. Rowe11It apparently doesn't matter, according to Republicans. So they'd better keep their mouths shut when a Democrat becomes President. I don't want to hear any more "omg the national debt" talk from any Republican.
Dr Robin9The GOP is not fiscally responsible. We need a Dem in the White House to clean it up.
dabxdee.bsky.social7The real welfare queens and terrorists are not coming from other countries, they're right on Capitol Hill, holding office, wearing robes and badges, and running multi billion dollar corporations. All on your dime. Your oppression is their profession. pathological psychopaths.
BoyGenius7Jake, why did it take Jon Ossoff to bring attention to Natalie Harp? What are you guys doing?
Michael E. Mann124Wait, this doesn't make any sense. Republicans are deficit hawks!
Kent Fellows5Because of the reserve currency status of the USD, the United States has the longest runway in the world on which to run debt before they face consequences. But, they're simultanously speeding up debt accumulation and dynamiting their reserve currency runway. It's a colossal set of unforced errors.
AnthropoceneMPG 🌊5Chump’s vanity projects: ballroom . . . ICE, Iran . . .
Justin5ok it might be important but how does it relate to Joe Biden’s age
Richmond Eustis2I will never understand why so many people think Republicans are the party of fiscal responsibility and restraint.
Christian Rincon2if Democrats want to take the debt seriously without penalizing the rest of us, they should tax billionaire wealth at like 20%-30%
Our national debt has topped $40 Trillion for the first time and no one is talking about how Donald Trump is responsible for $11.6 trillion of it in his one and a half terms in office. It's almost as if a cat has got hold of the press' tongue.
Robert-JP4I've also heard very little from press about his money laundering with 300 bank accounts. Weird.
Left for a better world1Could that be because he's actually responsible for $14.5 trillion of it?
freakanatcha.bsky.social1Bookmark it! The media won't mention the debt until a Dem is in the WH
varol927.bsky.social1The press has not done a good job at reporting the majority of shit that's going on!! They get their sights set in one subject & pound it to death all day long & for days! I can't even watch it anymore it's like watching the same episode all day long all week🤬
Firsk.bsky.social1Even more relevant is that he ran up huge deficits in a good economy, when we should have been building a cushion. And he did promise to eliminate the national debt- something that nearly happened in the Clinton administration.
canuckshuck2023.bsky.social1From outside, I’m not sure that the US can still claim to have a reliable information structure…just a propaganda automaton.
BREAKING: US national debt officially hits $40 trillion for the first time ever, per FOX
quandia.bsky.social11“Fiscally responsible” Republicans are in charge of all the branches of the government, ladies and gentlemen.
Emily10This wasn't supposed to happen til 2027. The Trump admin is burning money even faster than they steal it. Meanwhile, the bond markets are selling off like a going out of business sale. The US 30 yr bond rate hit 5.3% With a $40T debt, even tiny gains in bond rate translate to billions in interest
dabxdee.bsky.social5The real welfare queens and terrorists are not coming from other countries, they're right on Capitol Hill, holding office, wearing robes and badges, and running multi billion dollar corporations. All on your dime. Your oppression is their profession. pathological psychopaths.
b9a1baa8.bsky.social4The failed casino owner added 29% of that $40T in debt.
bselena.bsky.social3So thrifty of you Trump… while cutting off our healthcare assistance, our SNAP benefits, our FEMA assistance, our educational assistance…. as far as I can tell Trump and the Trump administration and the Trump crime family are the only people benefiting from TRUMP being in office. We are toast.
Jack Diddly Squat - Distinguished Fellow2GOP - Biden did it
Breaking news: The US’s national debt has hit a record $40tn as borrowing rises at a historic pace, fuelling investor concerns about the state of America’s public finances despite Donald Trump’s vow to bring spending under control. ft.trib.al/fN5D7I6
Athena Kugblenu17I know this is a basic be-atch thing to say but a lot of people voted exactly for this. They wanted their white supremacist icon to enrich himself and oppress minorities. They didn't care about robbing the whole country because they were poor when they voted for him and they'll be poor when he goes
Miles King2how much of this is being funnelled into the Trump Crime Family?
