In Two Months Trump Has Reduced Debt By 100 Billion

So Trump should be thanking Obama then. Obama does the hard work after the banking crisis crash. And Il Donald gets to coast on the labours of the previous regime's work at assisting the economy in recovering.
 
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Since Trump hasn't done anything in his two months in office other than go golfing for six consecutive weekends, claiming he did anything is simply another lie like the con artist is prone to giving out.

http://www.redstate.com/jaycaruso/2017/02/25/trump-tweets-national-debt-drivel-saw-fox-friends/

The ONLY reason the debt has decreased is because of ordinary accounting rotations in intra-governmental accounts:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/02/25/trump_tweet_on_national_debt_again_appears_to_show_president_is_glued_to.html

https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/835489514193833988

https://www.treasurydirect.gov/NP/debt/search?startMonth=01&startDay=20&startYear=2017&endMonth=02&endDay=21&endYear=2017

Also, we just hit our debt ceiling so obviously the con artists hasn't done anything.

https://dollarvigilante.com/blog/2017/03/16/the-us-government-hits-its-debt-target-ceiling-again-as-trump-has-no-plan-to-reduce-size-of-government.html
 
Tell us, since that's not what has happened.

http://crfb.org/blogs/has-debt-gone-down-12-billion-trump-took-office

The key is in the last paragraph:

The debt has fallen by $12 billion in Trump's first month of office, but that represents normal fluctuations in debt and the fact is most costs have come out of Treasury's cash balances, not any policy choice by the Trump Administration.​

Federal tax revenues are at an all-time high:

https://www.forbes.com/forbes/welco....google.com/&referrer=https://www.google.com/
 

That was September of last year, during the Obama administration.

Further, if you read the article, this little doozy stands out:

If that sounds like good news, don't get too excited just yet: it likely won't be enough to outweigh the escalating expenditures.​

And a little further down:

What increased at a higher rate than tax receipts? Tax refunds. According to the same report, income tax refunds - those payable to taxpayers at tax time - increased by $16 billion, an increase of about 7%. The overall effect was, of course, to reduce net receipts.​
 
Yes, there's absolutely no difference from taking office in the middle of a depression and taking office when the economy is rolling along nicely.


Hack.
 
Yes, there's absolutely no difference from taking office in the middle of a depression and taking office when the economy is rolling along nicely.


Hack.

Well, to be fair I can't say the economy is rolling along nicely. There are several serious problems we face - income inequality, banking and financial market regulation issues, underemployment of certain key demographics... etc.

What I can agree to say is that it is rolling along as nicely as can be expected given the unprecedented and insane obstructionism from the republicans.
 
Trump plays golf? I thought he went to Mar-A-Lago to hold top-level classified meetings on the restaurant terrace.
 
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