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Study: US Debt Would Increase Under Trump, Harris

Study: US Debt Would Increase $7.5T Under Trump, $3.5T Under Harris

Above: A Metrobus approaches a bus shelter at 18th and K St's NW where a poster and electronic billboard displays the current US national debt per person on Aug. 9, 2024 in Washington, DC. Image copyright: Jemal Countess/Stringer/Peter G. Peterson Foundation/Getty Images Entertainment via Getty Images

The Spin

Multiple analyses have reached the same opinion that Harris' policy proposals will do a better job of handling America's debt than Trump's. While there's a chance that a Harris administration would prevent national debt from growing at all, Trump risks running up a $15T bill if his pro-tariff anti-tax agenda doesn't go to plan.

Harris' policy pledges are nothing but vacuous buzzwords intended to hide her debt-inducing agenda. Democratic plans to raid the wallets of hard-working Americans will barely put a dent in the national deficit, while calls for taxing unrealized capital gains and everyday price controls are economically unviable. Harris cannot be trusted to manage the American economy.

Policy deficit estimates are extremely inaccurate, lacking any credible certainty over the future. These predictions should not be treated seriously, with the Committee's massive range of potential estimates unwieldy and practically useless.

Metaculus Prediction

There is a 50% chance the US national debt will reach $50 trillion by November 2029, according to the Metaculus prediction community.


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