Trump Has Cut National Debt Growth by 92 Percent

Washington Examiner via GP ^ | 05/10/25 | Mike LaChance

[Enlightened1]

Trump has been in office for only a few months and has already managed to cut national debt growth by 92 percent. This is definitely one of the things that would cause people to say, ‘I voted for this.’

While the left rants and raves over cuts to various government programs, Trump is securing the nation’s financial future by getting spending under control.

And remember, while Trump and Republicans are taking care of this serious business, Democrats are obsessing over and defending illegal immigrant criminals.

 

The contrast could not be sharper.

The Washington Examiner reports:

Trump has slowed national debt growth by 92%

For all the negative headlines hating on President Donald Trump‘s Department of Government Efficiency, daily data from the Treasury Department have vindicated the president’s crusade against our obese federal budget. Even without the trillions of dollars expected to come with Trump’s “one big, beautiful bill,” the White House has slowed the growth of federal debt held by the public so dramatically that the total national debt has actually shrunk since Inauguration Day.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: budget; cut; fake; nationaldebt; nottrue; propaganda; trump

[FlingWingFlyer]

And that has the evil DemonRATS really teed off.

[Parley Baer]

...and the RINO’s.

[Vermont Lt]

Congress will take care of that. They will get it going again!

It’s like they find a penny on the street and then want to go to the store and spend a quarter.

[Owen]

This does not look correct. If this were meaningful it would project over the entire year, and yet the projections for this year do not suggest any enormous reduction in the deficit.

It is likely that this is some sort of cherry picking of a time frame. One would have to go back and look at what was taking place last year in the first quarter, perhaps a roll off of covid measures and spending the last of that money.

This is a difference of 500 billion dollars. The projected deficit is not $500 billion dollars less this year than last year so there’s something abnormal in the time frame chosen.

[SaveFerris]

I voted for this!!

[napscoordinator]

Where’s the two trillion DOGE cut? That should go towards the debt.

[Phinneous]

Farcical. The Big Beautiful Pork Bill increases debt by $22T over 10 years.

[SaveFerris]

Hope we find out

[Bernard]

Part of the question about future spending is still dealing with the authorizations from previous years, signed off by Otto T. Penn, the acting President while Joe was asleep at the beach. And that spending seems to be controlled by the judges running amuck.

[bert]

You are precisely correct

The statement regarding rescinding of pardons may be just the beginning.

There absolutely have to be many instances of recission of auto signed Presidential documents because a decision by the SCOTUS must decide the issue

It has much wider implications carried to online documents that never become paper that can actually receive a signature

[Owen]

You are correct that debt continues to increase, but the claim was a reduction in growth rate. Not a reduction.

Projections like this can always be achieved by quietly adjusting the expected interest rate on that debt. That interest is going to generate over 1 trillion this year. So you could get $500 billion less by cutting the interest rate in half and waving your hands and say, no one knows what interest rates will be so maybe this will be correct.

[tired&retired]

Please Trump, focus all you can on voter integrity without making it a public fight. Do it covertly. Prosecute voter fraud. Create oversight over electronic voting machines.

I find it ironic that the same company that certifies gambling machines for casinos is responsible for certifying voting machines.

[1Old Pro]

Doing the right thing eventually gets the positive recognition it deserves and the positive outcomes soon follow.

[XRdsRev]

It basically is the difference in a specific short period this year compared to last year. It is meaningless and simply a story designed to WOW any body who just reads the headline but doesn’t think critically about the whole story. Basically propaganda. Hopefully the President and team will achieve meaningful debt reductions at some point but this ain’t it.

[tired&retired]

If You look at the increase in M1 Monetary Supply and the amount of debt the Federal Reserve owns, it is very obvious that the Federal Reserve has been printing money to purchase the debt. (Went from under $4 trillion pre Covid to $22 Trillion under Biden)

The Fed has been keeping interest rates low by purchasing the debt at auction with the printed money. By bidding up the purchase price, thus decreasing the T-Bill discount, they are lowering the yields.

[blackdog]

Kicking and screaming at every inch, both parties.

The arson and social justice riots will commence at full speed by Memorial Day and last throughout the summer.

[Vaduz]

MAGA in action saving America

[i_robot73]

Unless Congress codifies these changes, anything Pres. Trump has ‘done’ is merely lip-service.

& knowing how the party of “small(er) govt” REALLY ‘works’....But, keep pulling that (R)N(C) lever, it’s SURE to change soon *rolls eyes*

[Doctor Congo]

Would it take a balanced budget to eliminate any debt growth?
We don’t have that, yet.