(From mid 2019)"During the 2016 campaign, President Donald Trump made an aggressive promise on federal finances: He would eliminate the budget deficit within eight years. Now, three years into his presidency, the deficit is 68 percent higher than when he started.Trump inherited a deficit of $585 billion when he took office in January 2017. That was 58 percent lower than the $1.4 trillion former President Barack Obama inherited in 2009 following the financial crisis, a number his administration slashed over two terms.According to the latest Congressional Budget Office data released on Monday, the full-year deficit for 2019 is estimated to come in at $984 billion, just shy of the $1 trillion that many analysts were expecting. In 2018 the figure was $779 billion and in 2017 it was $665 billion."https://www.newsweek.com/trump-deficit-debt-cbo-data-obama-1463802Nor were the figures for the rest of his Presidency any better:"The budget deficit for 2019 exceeded $1 trillion, in part due to Trump's 2017 tax legislation. It cut taxes significantly for the very rich and for big corporations, increased taxes for an estimated 10 million families, and added something in the neighborhood of $1 trillion to the deficit over a decade."https://americanindependent.com/donald-trump-national-debt-budget-deficit-broken-promises-white-house/
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