Will Trump balance the budget?

NewRoxFan · Feb 13, 2018

trump's Director of National Intelligence goes off script... trump's increasing debt threatens the nations safety.

Intelligence official warns Trump administration on national debt

Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats used a Senate hearing Tuesday to do something unusual: take a swipe at both the Trump administration and Congress for allowing federal deficits and debt to spiral upward. Just one day after President Donald Trump submitted a budget that fails to balance spending and revenue in the next decade — and less than a week after Congress struck a spending deal that would drive up the national debt by more than $500 billion — the former Republican senator from Indiana said Washington’s lack of fiscal discipline undermines national security. "I'm concerned that our increasingly fractious political process, particularly with respect to federal spending, is threatening our ability to properly defend our nation, both in the short term and especially in the long term,” Coats said in his opening statement to the Senate Intelligence Committee.
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https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/13/trump-national-debt-intelligence-officials-407255

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