White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked about the US national debt surpassing a record $34 trillion, for which she blamed the historic number on "trickle-down debt" and Republican "MAGAnomics."
"So yeah, if you look at — if you look at that data, it’s a trickle — there’s a trickle-down debt," Jean-Pierre said. "If you think about it, Republican tax cuts are responsible for about 90 percent of it, of the increase in the debt as a share of the economy over the last two decades, excluding emergency spending.
