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US Debt Slashed By 12 Billion In Trump’s First Month

The US national debt has been reduced by a staggering 12 billion dollars during President Trump’s first month in office. Inheriting a national debt of $19,947 billion – an enormous figure that was thought irreversible and had been blowing out by billions every day Obama was in office – President Trump immediately got to work and began turning the situation around. On February 21st, just month later, the US debt load stood at $19,935 billion – a reduction of $12 billion, and the first time in decades a President has turned the debt clock backwards.

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