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...
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.
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.