only for people who don't know it's the end of 2018 and 1.3 trillion is the debt for 2018. Of course, folk who don't pay attention to the news miss stuff, eh?
Apparently you did, yes.
Now, if a fuller explanation is needed (for the benefit of readers who are not trolls), you started a thread purely in order to savage the president of the United States whom you have no business criticizing anyway, being a subject of a foreign government. The point of the attack was to say that he took the budget too much into debt (or some other variant of that Democrat Party talking point).
But the facts do not support the claim. First, he has economized in ways that his predecessors going back many years never did. His immediate successor, whom he is always compared with, oversaw an increase in the national debt by an amount that exceeds that
of all previous presidents combined.
And second, you attempted to justify that predecessor's deficits by saying there was a recession. Yet it is well-known that much of that money was wasted. There
were no shovel ready projects after all--and that was Obama's own admission after having said that this is why those appropriations were needed. And Cash for Clunkers? Who forgets that boondoggle which did no good, either? Worse, the recession was not ended by any of this. Obama oversaw the longest recession is American history.
To compare Trump's first year and a half in office with the spendthrift policies of the Obama years...and try to make Trump look more profligate than his predecessor is either hypocrisy or blind partisanship. A 'trick with numbers' might be the better way of putting it, since you provided the chart for us to see.
At the very least, it must be admitted that the spending Trump did on restoring the military--which was badly needed after the Obama years--was not thrown away like the shovel ready building projects that never existed and were never done (and were mainly intended to put money into the pocket of organized Labor as the president's thanks to the AFL-CIO for its hard work in getting him elected in 2008).
