it rises significantly faster. republicans calling for more oversight demanding a balanced budget amendment to the constitution. for now it seems the debt is snowballing. the debt is more than $5.6 trillion. it nearly doubled during george w. bush s administration, $10.6 trillion and doubled again to almost $200,020,000,000,000,000 during president obama s administration. almost $1 trillion added during the trump administration to reach more than $27 trillion. usd:00.org says each taxpayer widow 233,$000. back to you. edward: i don t think they will take a check.