Shouldn’t we adjust for inflation though? Like a billion was a TON a while ago
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Anonymous#124w
It doesn’t really need to be studied, most of the difference is covid spending.
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Anonymous#224w
Over half of his first term’s contribution to the debt was not COVID-related
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Anonymous#124w
But nearly half of it was covid spending, which most presidents did not have to deal with. That must be an old graphic, Biden’s term added more to the debt than Trump’s first term.
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Anonymous#224w
This was in Sep 2024, but the methodology is different also. Instead of just looking at the change before and after (which would cause a future president to be blamed for impacts of the previous president’s budget in the first year), they looked at the cost of each action