The national debt has just surpassed $30 trillion. Neither party cares to do anything about it.

Republicans like to talk about the national debt and fiscal responsibility when it’s convenient to do so: when the opposing party is in the White House or controls Congress. However, under former President Donald Trump, who called himself the “King of Debt,” the national debt grew $7.8 trillion. But now that Joe Biden is president, Republicans decry the national debt, as House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy did on Thursday.