Mon
Feb 3 2020
06:04 pm
By: jbr
The budget deficit is projected to top $1 trillion in 2020
The US government is set to spend at least a trillion dollars more than it takes in for the next decade.
Don't look now, but the US deficit is skyrocketing
CBO: The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2020 to 2030
Trump and the GOP are fueling the explosion of our national debt
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Sanders and Warren's books
(in reply to Knoxoasis)
I'll try to remember to get the chapter and page of these plans from each of the candidates posted.