Comment by chneu

Trump is increasing the debt tho and did in his first term.

Republicans only care about debt when it can be used to either bash Democrats or used as a talking point to eliminate something they don't like. Lookup "Starve The Beast".

Republicans do not care about the debt. They care that it can be used as a tool. That's it.

They run up the debt when they want and then turn around to blame Democrats for the debt they ran up.

Nobody is really concerned with the US debt outside of silly wanna-be patriots and the politicians who use it to scare them. Now, one way to make the US debt a much bigger deal is to cause a recession...hmm...wonder if anyone is trying to do that...