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The next 100 days will reveal how the White House handles debt

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30.04.2025

One hundred days into President Trump's second term, your feelings about the administration’s performance so far probably depend in large part on how you voted.

The White House and its allies will say that the most important thing has been immigration, pitching its border and interior enforcement as a stunning success — with a good bit of supporting evidence.

Democrats, on the other hand, are ceaselessly reminding people of the administration's shortcomings, such as the elusive peace deal in Ukraine that candidate Trump promised, or the apparent disarray in his trade policy.

Personally, I’m a lot more interested in the next 100 days. Because there is really one issue that is going to be front and center between now and August: debt.

Ordinarily, very few people in Washington care about the debt — or, to be more precise, they care very little about spending less. As one Republican senator once told me, excoriating my proposed 2018 budget blueprint, “No one in this town has ever lost his job for spending too much, but people have lost it for not spending enough.” With Republicans talking like that, you can only imagine how the Democrats feel.........

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