Here is a chart of the debt by president. The Republican claim fiscal frugalness yet, I don't see it in the chart.
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I'm not sure the amount of debt has much to do with the President. The happening to be President at the time certain bills were passed and that certain events occurred may have a mild correlation but that's about it. For example, people don't usually blame Trump for Covid happening but we do blame Democrats for their extremely expensive response to it with regard to people's ability to work, school, parent and generally participate in the economy.
The Democrats' solutions definitely tend to be spending. The Republicans have certain things they like to spend on, (military, for example), but the Democrats tend to
exclusively come up with solutions that require spending a lot of money.
All I know is, every time I hear a Democrat talk about a solution it's spending money. 3/4 of those times the Republicans are trying to stop it.
Student loan forgiveness is a great example. Why spend money on forgiving loans that lucid people willingly took out? How is that fair to anyone else?
Another big factor is whose money is being spent, which is an issue you can slice and dice a million different ways.
I can't remember the last time I heard a major Democrat-sponsored bill as a solution to a substantial problem that didn't simply involve spending more money to give people stuff.
Remember Covid? Democrats: pay people not to work. Republicans: let people work.
It's a worldview on government difference.
There's a major ship to be steered; I'd guess if Republicans had majority control it would take at least 2 administrations or more consecutively to reverse the national debt trend, if not more. Thus the chart is not much good.
This is why I don't tend to be directly critical nor attribute success in a very direct manner from , say, jobs report to president. We know Covid has receded, we know those restored jobs have nothing to do with Biden, and the same may be true from jobs gained under a Republican president.
I do know one thing. We have a major debt problem, and our solutions need to be trained on a cultural shift toward encouraging and requiring people to work, rather than spending more money to give them more creature comforts. Preferably before we have to be one of those countries where people are rioting over "austerity measures" which is a fancy way of saying, we were stupid and spent too much money.
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