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Trump will make reducing national debt a ‘big second term priority,’ White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany says
White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said during an interview Wednesday that President Trump plans to make addressing the ballooning national debt a “big second term priority” — but offered scant details as to how the president planned to reduce the deficit.
... [+] at Smith Reynolds Airport on September 8, 2020 in Winston Salem, North Carolina. The president also made a campaign stop in South Florida on Tuesday. In an interview with Fox News on Wednesday, McEnany was asked what Trump’s plan was for reducing the deficit, after the Congressional Budget Officelast week the federal budget reached a record deficit of $3 billion in August, amid increased spending during the pandemic. McEnany said she had recently spoken to Trump, who said the debt was going to be a “big second term priority of his.” The president “wants to see unprecedented growth” in his second term, McEnany said, before praising Trump for building the “hottest economy in modern history once” before the pandemic hit. The press secretary did not offer concrete details about how Trump planned to reduce the deficit, only saying that the president saw “unprecedented growth as going a long way in solving the problem.” In 2016, Trump promised to eliminate the debt in eight years but — even before the pandemic hit — the presidentin increasing the national deficit: he signed the 2017 tax plan, which cut tax revenue, and approved a two year budget that increased spending. The deficit has only increased this year amid the pandemic, as Republicans and Democrats passed record stimulus spending plans that Trump signed.
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