White House debt figures don't add up - Wolfers | Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

White House debt figures don't add up - Wolfers

July 7, 2025 MSNBC

Ford School economics professor Justin Wolfers told MSNBC, "Center-right and center-left economics all agree that this is going to have a massive effect blowing up the national debt. The White House Council of Economic Advisors... has put out a claim that Trump will actually reduce the national debt."  

"This idea that Republicans are fiscally conservative and concerned about the deficit does cause me to chuckle a little bit... There has not been a fiscally concerned Republican in my lifetime."