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6 Oct, 11 tweets, 2 min read

The US National Debt is now more than $27 trillion dollars.

It has risen by $7 trillion dollars in the past 44 months.

Here's how we got here:

Here's when we reached the next trillion dollars of debt and the number of days it took to reach it:

5 trillion dollars on 2/23/1996 (Clinton)
6 trillion dollars on 2/26/2002 (Clinton/Bush, 2,195 days)
7 trillion dollars on 1/15/2004 (Bush, 688 days)

8 trillion dollars on 10/18/2005 (Bush, 642 days)
9 trillion dollars on 8/31/2007 (Bush, 682 days)
10 trillion dollars on 9/30/2008 (Bush, 396 days)
11 trillion dollars on 3/16/2009 (Bush/Obama, 167 days)
12 trillion dollars on 11/16/2009 (Obama, 245 days)

13 trillion dollars on 6/1/2010 (Obama, 197 days)
14 trillion dollars on 12/31/2010 (Obama, 213 days)
15 trillion dollars on 11/15/2011 (Obama, 319 days)
16 trillion dollars on 8/31/2012 (Obama, 290 days)
17 trillion dollars on 10/17/2013 (Obama, 412 days)

18 trillion dollars on 11/28/2014 (Obama, 407 days)
19 trillion dollars on 1/29/2016 (Obama, 427 days)
20 trillion dollars on 9/8/2017 (Obama/Trump, 588 days)
21 trillion dollars on 3/15/2018 (Trump, 188 days)
22 trillion dollars on 2/11/2019 (Trump, 333 days)

23 trillion dollars on 10/31/2019 (Trump, 262 days)
24 trillion dollars on 4/7/2020 (Trump, 159 days)
25 trillion dollars on 5/5/20 (Trump, 28 days)
26 trillion dollars on 6/9/20 (Trump, 35 days)
27 trillion dollars o 9/30/20 (Trump, 113 days)

Trump holds the records for the shortest number of days it took for one President to oversee the nation going a trillion dollars deeper into debt.

But he first broke this record long before COVID and before the recession, from 9/8/2017 through 3/15/2018 ($20 to $21 trillion).

If you rank the shortest times it took a single President to blow through another trillion on our national credit card:

Trump (24 trillion to 25 trillion) - 28 days*
Trump (25 trillion to 26 trillion) - 35 days*
Trump (26 trillion to 27 trillion) - 113 days*

Trump (23 trillion to 24 trillion) - 159 days*
Trump (20 trillion to 21 trillion) - 188 days
Obama (12 trillion to 13 trillion) - 197 days
Obama (13 trillion to 14 trillion) - 213 days
Obama (11 trillion to 12 trillion) - 245 days*
Trump (22 trillion to 23 trillion) - 262 days

Obama (15 trillion to 16 trillion) - 290 days
Obama (14 trillion to 15 trillion) - 319 days
Trump (21 trillion to 22 trillion) - 333 days
Bush (9 trillion to 10 trillion) - 396 days*
Obama (17 trillion to 18 trillion) - 407 days
Obama (16 trillion to 17 trillion ) - 412 days

Obama (18 trillion to 19 trillion) - 427 days
Bush (7 trillion to 8 trillion) - 642 days
Bush (8 trillion to 9 trillion) - 682 days
Bush (6 trillion to 7 trillion) - 688 days

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Long before the COVID pandemic wrecked the economy, President Trump broke the record for the shortest time it took for a single US President to raise the national debt to the next trillion dollar mark.

We went from owing $20 trillion to $21 trillion in just 188 days in 2017.

When Trump became President, our national debt was just shy of $20 trillion dollars.

We hit the $20 trillion mark less than eight months into Trump’s term, on 9/8/2017.

We hit $21 trillion on 3/15/2018. 188 days later.

Since COVID hit, Trump has broken the all-time record three more times. By a lot.

It took 28 days for the debt to go from $24 to $25 trillion.
35 days for the debt to go from 25 to $26 trillion.
152 days for the debt to go from $23 to $24 trillion.

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1 Aug

There are 435 Congressional Districts in the US House of Representatives.

43 of the 50 Districts with the highest percentage of residents with Bachelor’s Degrees or higher went blue in the 2018 midterms.

I dug further. Of the 101 Congressional Districts with the highest percentage of residents with degrees (The top 101 instead of the top 100 because two districts were tied), guess how many contests Republicans won in the 2018 House races?

Only 18 of them.

Out of the TOP 101!!

I emphasize this because I look at relationships between a lot of demographic categories and how they vote. And this one is just glaring. It’s astounding.

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How bad has the US handled the Coronavirus pandemic?

Let’s compare ourselves to the other G7 countries. All of which had their first Covid cases within a week of when we had ours.

USA
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Most New Cases in a day:
48,529 (on 4/26)
Latest New Cases in a day:
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First Confirmed Case:
1/26/20
Most New Cases in a day:
2,769 (on 5/4)
Latest New Cases in a day:
668 (on 6/30, 24.20% of peak)

France
First Confirmed Case:
1/25/20
Most New Cases in a day:
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Latest New Cases in a day:
1,324 (on 6/30, 17.47% of peak)

Germany
First Confirmed Case:
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Latest New Casea in a day:
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