How Trump Increasing The National Debt Impacts You

特朗普增加国家债务如何影响你

What A Day

2026-08-22

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The United States national debt reached a record-breaking $40 trillion dollars this week. If you spread out that debt to every resident of the U.S., we would each owe more than $115,000 dollars. So how did we get here? To find out more about what our big bad debt means for you, we spoke with Scott Lincicome. He’s the vice president of general economics at the Cato Institute. And in headlines, Trump-fixer-turned-frenemy Michael Cohen hosted the president on his radio show, the USS George Washington aircraft carrier is relieving the long-deployed USS Abraham Lincoln, and a Texas court slashes a $50 million judgment against Infowars founder Alex Jones to about $6 million. Show Notes: Call Congress – 202-224-3121 Subscribe to the What A Day Newsletter – https://tinyurl.com/y4y2e9jy What A Day – YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/@whatadaypodcast For a transcript of this episode, please email transcripts@crooked.com Follow us on Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/crookedmedia/
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  • You hear people on the left, oh,

  • if only we hadn't done those tax cuts and if only we'd tax billionaires, we'd be fine.

  • No, no, that's totally, totally not true.

  • It just simply was adding one more log on a massive bonfire.

  • And the massive bonfire is this really unsustainable entitlement system

  • that is politically bulletproof, yet a big problem just in terms of the numbers.

  • I'm Jane Koston, and this is What A Day, the show that is here to say don't worry about the national debt.

  • Because Vice President J.D. Vance told Newsmax on Thursday that actually it's former President Joe Biden's fault.

  • Even though the debt is too high, even though we inherited this debt bomb from the Biden administration,

  • we actually do have a plan to get the economy growing faster than the debt.

  • And that's the most important thing.

  • Sure, J.D., President Donald Trump had nothing to do with the national debt and the man who loves debt.

  • Has a plan to fix it.

  • On today's show, hey, how did our national debt get so big?

  • To find out, I spoke with the Cato Institute's Scott Lincecum.

  • Before we get into the terrible multi-trillion dollar debt, here's what we're following today, Friday, August 21st.

  • They weaponized you like nobody's ever been weaponized, like few have been.

  • Maybe just you and I, sir.

  • Yeah, me too, but I don't consider mine.

  • Mine was at a level that nobody's ever seen before.