Trump budget calls for adding almost as much to the debt as Obama did

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President Trump’s fiscal year 2020 budget projects that he would add nearly as much to the national debt in eight years as former President Barack Obama did during his tenure.

The proposed trillions in added debt proposed by the administration run counter to Trump’s criticisms of Obama and congressional Democrats.

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