{"id":31391,"date":"2017-08-20T20:31:27","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T00:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31391"},"modified":"2017-08-20T20:31:28","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T00:31:28","slug":"a-much-needed-accomplishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31391","title":{"rendered":"A Much-Needed Accomplishment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Gateway Pundit reported today that <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"President of the United States\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/President_of_the_United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">President<\/a> Trump has cut the federal debt. He has not only cut the federal debt, he has cut more from the U.S. <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Government debt\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Government_debt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">Federal debt<\/a> for a longer period of time than any other President in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"History of the United States\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_the_United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">United States history<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">When President Trump was inaugurated on January 20, 2017 the amount of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667 (United%20States)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation noopener\">US<\/a> Federal Debt owed both externally and internally was over $19 Trillion at $19,947,304,555,212.\u00a0 As of August 17th the amount of US Debt had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.treasurydirect.gov\/NP\/debt\/search?startMonth=01&amp;startDay=20&amp;startYear=2017&amp;endMonth=12&amp;endDay=31&amp;endYear=2017\">decreased by more than $100 Billion <\/a>to $19,845,188,460,167.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-367192\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/us-debt-aug-17-2017.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 677px) 100vw, 677px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/us-debt-aug-17-2017.png 677w, http:\/\/cdn.thegatewaypundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/US-Debt-Aug-17-2017-300x56.png 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"677\" height=\"127\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The article points out that the US Government Accountability Office (GAO)\u00a0has performed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.treasurydirect.gov\/govt\/reports\/pd\/feddebt\/feddebt.htm\">audits since 1997 of the US Debt <\/a>amounts outstanding.\u00a0 In their analysis they show that when accounting for US Debt Held by the Public and US Intergovernmental Debt Holdings, the amount of US Debt has increased every year since their audits began.<\/p>\n<p>This is the chart of that debt history shown in the article:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/USDebt.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/USDebt.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"519\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/USDebt.png 519w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/USDebt-290x300.png 290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 519px) 100vw, 519px\" \/><\/a>The debt nearly doubled under President Obama. It is long past time to bring government spending under control.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<h3><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gateway Pundit reported today that President Trump has cut the federal debt. He has not only cut the federal debt, he has cut more from the U.S. Federal debt for a longer period of time than any other President &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31391\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3357,11020,2340,4490,285],"class_list":["post-31391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-donald-trump","tag-federal-debt","tag-gateway-pundit","tag-president-of-the-united-states","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31391"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31395,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31391\/revisions\/31395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}