How each presidential candidate’s platforms may affect the national debt
Oct 23, 2024•11 min
Episode description
Hosts: Leah Murray & Adam Gardiner
The United States is more than $35 Trillion in debt. The two major party candidates have both released their plans to “fix” the deficit, but would their plans actually fix things? According to Mike Murphy, Senior Vice President and Chief of Staff for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB), neither candidate will help the debt; in fact, they’ll both make it worse. We discuss several new reports from the CRFB.
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