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national debt

noun as in money owed by country

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Extending the bill would add an estimated $4 trillion to the national debt over the next ten years, the Congressional Budget Office estimated.

From Salon

How do you abandon deeply held beliefs about character, personal responsibility, foreign policy and the national debt in a matter of months?

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And America’s national debt held by the public is currently equal to around 97% of the size of the economy.

From BBC

Project 2025 claims that they are “the principal drivers of our $31-trillion national debt. ... In essence, our deficit problem is a Medicare and Medicaid problem.”

But Harris' and Trump's proposals won't do much to bring down the national debt, according to an analysis by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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