an update as of Dec 2024, Total debt change percentage in office per president Biden has increased the debt by $7 Trillion, a ~~24.75% increase MAGA Trump 1.0 increased the debt by $8.2 Trillion, a 40.4% increase my take is that Trump 2.0 will increase the US debt burden by more than $8.2 trillion
as of Dec 2024, the Biden admin has created over 16 million jobs. my take is that Trump 2.0 will create less jobs than Biden
jobs created have been the result of these Biden-induced legistlations Inflation Reductin Act Infrastructure Act CHIP act had Trump actually bother to pass an infrastucture bill, which was one of his top campaign agenda, his admin would not have lost 2 million jobs, even w the Pandemic
Ok, as long as you aren't counting the jobs that came back after the pandemic, then your post is valid.
It's always amazing to me that - He didn't decrease the debt in his first term but people are SURE he will in his second He promised it both times Rocket River
No, it's counting jobs lost to covid and then regained. I think it deserves an asterisk, but recovering from covid getting those jobs back wasn't an automatic thing. So yeah, maybe the US had some low-hanging fruit in this regard, but we actually executed and got those jobs back where other countries didn't do it as quickly. I should also point out that we actually started adding back those Covid jobs under Trump -- we basically had a couple negative months (3/2020 lost 1.4 million and 4/2020 lost 20.5 million, then later 12/2020 lost 0.2 million, but all other months showed positive growth). This article addresses the counting: How job figures under Biden and Trump's presidencies compare. According to the BLS, job growth looked like this: * Trump job growth period (2/2017 thru 2/2020, 37 months): +6.7 million * Covid disaster under Trump (3/2020 thru 4/2020, 2 months): -21.9 million * Covid recovery under Trump (5/2020 thru 1/2021, 9 months): +12.5 million * Covid recovery under Biden until we reached Feb 2020 employment (2/2021 thru 6/2022, 17 months): +9.4 million * Biden job growth period (7/2022 thru 1/2025, 31 months): ~ +7 million N.B., I don't think presidents actually deserve credit for job growth. But, I do hate when campaigns or other interested parties obfuscate the numbers to make themselves look good, so I tried to be very clear about what the periods of growth were. But, if we were to cut out the covid disaster and recovery periods and do a crude jobs/month calculation, it would look like this: Trump: 181k Biden: 226k Both lag behind Bill Clinton's rate of 240k.
