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- hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
- cross-posted to:
- hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
The national debt surpassed a record $39 trillion on Wednesday, a milestone that comes just weeks into the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran.
The unprecedented figure highlights competing administration priorities, from passing a massive tax law and boosting defense spending and immigration enforcement to chipping away at the debt itself — the latter of which Donald Trump promised to do as both a candidate and as president.


The Epstein class extracts wealth through convoluted debt schemes and rapes children. That’s their thing. That’s the billionaire club. These are the people in charge of the world.
The rich folk need a monetary system to keep score in their funny game. Make the number go up.