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By Adelin REMY, Editor
In April 2016, presidential candidate Donald Trump made a remarkable promise: he would eliminate America’s national debt — then about $19 trillion — over eight years. The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget immediately concluded that the numbers did not add up. Ten years later, the verdict of arithmetic is even more striking: US gross federal debt has passed $40 trillion, more than twice its level when Trump first entered the White House.
The question today is therefore not whether Trump can literally pay off the $40 trillion debt during his second term. He cannot. The more interesting question is whether his combination of faster economic growth, tariffs, government savings, cryptocurrency and...
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