> Trump will likely have to make some tough choices to right it. <
The federal debt rose at roughly the same rate when Trump was president as it did when Obama was president. So either Trump doesn’t care about the debt or he thought it was beyond his power to fix. After all, he did not veto a single major spending bill.
Perhaps Trump 2.0 will be different. For the sake of the country, let’s hope so.
Trump has no plan to reduce the debt. Never really addresses it meaningfully.