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Posted on 05/02/2026 8:57:07 AM PDT by RandFan
Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) on Friday warned that the growing national debt is “a ticking time bomb” and he called on his fellow lawmakers to do “much more.”
The U.S. national debt crossed 100 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) at the end of the first quarter, the first time the debt crossed that line since 1946. The debt surpassed $39 trillion in March, a mere five months after it reached $38 trillion.
Roy told Fox Business’s Cheryl Casone that the debt is “a ticking time bomb and that some of us have been talking about for a long time.”
“Now, thankfully, we’ve taken some strides over the last couple of years to do something about it,” he said. “[With] the Big Beautiful Bill, we had some pretty significant cuts to some mandatory spending. And over the last three years we’ve held discretionary funding spending basically flat.”
He added that while that was a “win in Washington, but for the American people generally, we need to do much more.” Roy said he has called for deeper spending reductions and “returning power to the states and the people.”
“Unfortunately, you know, the government is sort of on autopilot at times,” he continued, before warning that if the debt continues to balloon, “we’re going to destroy our country.”
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First of all spending cuts won’t happen. Politicians have too much respect for their heads. What’s gonna have to happen is a SHTF result. Then they’ll have to cut as there won’t be any money to keep government going.
It’s gonna be awesome.
Fat chance they will do more. More spending and free money to foreign interests is what they do, along with some cool kickbacks, of course.
Trump is a big spender.
Not sure why there is so much TDS in Congress.
Congress will do nothing. See “DOGE” for starters.
1. Persistent inflation, coupled with a deliberate move to under-report true inflation figures so automatic cost-of-living adjustments in government spending don’t keep up with it.
2. Massive immigration, to import a whole set of replacement Americans who think living in poverty in a modern country that is $40 trillion in debt is a great deal.
The voters want big spenders.
“Ticking”?
Where the everloving phoook has this wing nut been hiding?
The Bomb went off already-
Median Household income~ $75K and falling fast.
Median home price $420K
(Zillow:
NYS Median Sale Price: $778,000 (February 28, 2026)
FLA Median Sale Price: $373,333 (February 28, 2026)
NC Median Sale Price: $333,333 (February 28, 2026)
Gold price $5K/oz
That Bomb went off long ago.
Cut welfare to zero, get out of nato, and get out of the UN to begin.
It's not even noon (CST) and you've already won the "most stupid internet comment extant" prize.
Given profligate spending, the amount of fraud that is allowed to take place, and the lack of accountability for either fraudsters or incompetent Congress members, it is extremely difficult to take the deficit seriously.
Let's just say that there are very good reasons why banks and big investors are willing to take such lousy interest rates.
All three are not going to happen. DOGE and removing all the illegals and fake refugees was the best answer.
And those went mostly by the wayside.
The beat goes on. Until it stops.
“deeper spending reductions and “returning power to the states and the people.””
Modest spending cuts yes. But the voters are not logical. They think there is a FREE LUNCH.
Congress, Bureaucrats & voters must focus on WASTE FRAUD ABUSE WFA in government. HHS is the biggest spender and the biggest source of WFA.
Deloitte is probably the single biggest FRAUD in government, and with HHS money.
If the Deloitte FRAUD were stopped and past FRAUD prosecuted other vendors and contractors in the swamp would shape up.
There no “organic” leftists in America any longer - they are all fed by the Federal Budget, by public unions, by student loans, by cronies connected to Fed.gov, etc. etc.
In sum - ALL of America’s woke parasites exist by, within and from our massive federal budget and deficit.
We are funding our own destruction.
I’m just repeating what I hear and can agree with:
https://www.amazon.com/End-Near-Its-Going-Awesome/dp/0062220683
If you run for president, you have my vote.
1812. Under Andrew Jackson that was the only time Federal debt was zero. Milton Friedman knew it was a systemic problem. He also knew a way to fix it. A Balanced Budget Amendment. The only way that happens is through a Convention Of States.
Trump needs to do one thing: veto any spending bill that exceeds, say, $4.2 trillion this year; $4.1 trillion next year; and $4.0 trillion the year after. One cent more would earn the President Reagan treatment: “This budget is DOA.”
Democrats are responsible for very dollar of that debt.
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