Opponents of adding to the national debt say President Trump’s plan to balance the federal budget in 15 years is unserious and that he remains on track to add as much debt as former President Obama, whom Trump once accused of having “effectively bankrupted” the country.

Trump’s new fiscal 2020 budget contains large reductions — such as a deep cut to Medicare spending — that budget hawks consider politically unrealistic. If those cuts fail to materialize, Trump’s addition to the debt will be worse than predicted.