McCarthy: US Now Owes More Than Entire Economy Makes in Year, Can’t Continue This Way

McCarthy: US Now Owes More Than Entire Economy Makes in Year, Can’t Continue This Way

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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy highlighted this week that the nation’s debt exceeds the size of the entire U.S. economy.
After meeting with President Joe Biden on Tuesday regarding raising the debt ceiling, McCarthy said to reporters, “The real question is, how much debt is too much? We’re at $32 trillion almost, 120 percent of our GDP. That means it’s larger than our economy by 20 percent.”
The only other time this has happened in modern history was in 1946 in the immediate aftermath of World War II, when the U.S. debt to GDP ratio stood at 106 percent, according to The Wall Street Journal.

McCarthy further noted the U.S. has already borrowed $1 trillion in the current fiscal year, which ends on Sept. 31.
The Congressional Budget Office projected this month that the deficit will be $1.5 trillion for the year, up from February’s f …

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