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Ummm... Wut? The national debt is not at $31.27T; it's well above $38T.

I'd accuse someone of trying to gaslight the public into thinking things aren't as bad as they *actually* are; but upon closer inspection, this just looks like 'news' outlets lazily regurgitating the same erroneous slop. (If the Bureau of Economic Analysis is indeed the source of this, they appear to have since taken it down).

TFTC @TFTC · 2d
US national debt just surpassed the size of the entire economy for the first time since World War II. Public debt: $31.27T GDP: $31.22T The math is broken. The endgame is obvious. https://blossom.primal.net/69166cbfd14fbf6d838ad016421af613e8739ca905f29a945ca8f26db77274fd.png
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Judge Hardcase · 1d
BTW, also Fox News Headline: 🤣 https://image.nostr.build/af8b021b2c037429036f5bf8d69ca0083982fbccce1494d4b4359c8a1c7bd942.jpg
Judge Hardcase · 1d
Correction: The subheadline is correct: public debt is at ~$31.27T. It's just the conflation of terms "national debt" and "public debt" in the main headline (and pretty much everywhere else) that is erroneous - which, TBH, I initially did as well.