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Former President Trump ran up the national debt by about twice as much as President Biden, according to a new analysis of their fiscal track records.
Why it matters: The winner of November's election faces a gloomy fiscal outlook, with rapidly rising debt levels at a time when interest rates are already high and demographic pressure on retirement programs is rising.
- Both candidates bear a share of the responsibility, as each added trillions to that tally while in office.
- But Trump's contribution was significantly higher, according to the fiscal watchdogs at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, thanks to both tax cuts and spending deals struck in his four years in the White House.
- Biden's figure clocks in at $4.3 trillion with seven months remaining in his term.
- If you exclude COVID relief spending from the tally, the numbers are $4.8 trillion for Trump and $2.2 trillion for Biden.