The US national debt is now rising by $1 Trillion every 180 days.

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1. Nov 2000: US was on track to zero debt by 2009.

Republicans voted to replace Clinton’s surplus budget tax and economic policies with Bush’s economy-collapsing policies.

“the federal budget deficit fell every year of the Clinton administration, from $290 billion in 1992 to $255 billion in 1993, $203 billion in 1994, $164 billion in 1995, $107 billion in 1996, and $22 billion in 1997. In 1998, there was a budget surplus of $69 billion, which rose to $126 billion in 1999 and $236 billion in 2000 before it was dissipated by huge tax cuts during the George W. Bush administration.”

https://archive.nytimes.com/economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/05/the-clinton-tax-challenge-for-republicans/