The first 2024 presidential debate generated days of headlines about President Joe Biden‘s health and former President Donald Trump‘s loose way with words.
But the debate came just days after a government agency announced that $1.9 trillion would be added to the national debt this year alone — and that the ratio of debt to gross domestic product would soon eclipse a record set during World War II, suggesting there were more important matters to discuss than which candidate had a lower golf handicap.
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