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.

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      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.