CNN CNN Newsroom With Pamela Brown June 4, 2024 00:54:00
Federal debt has continued rising under president biden hitting a record of $31 trillion in october. what has been cut in half is something else. it is the federal budget deficit, the annual difference between spending and revenues. even here biden taking credit is at best highly questionable. temporary pandemic spending from 2020 expires as always planned not because of biden's action, actions that many analysts say have worsen the deficit picture. here is biden on a rally on thursday. >> under fellow trump, they passed $2 trillion tax cut, not a penny of which was paid for affected the top 1...