“Reagan took the deficit from $70 billion to $175 billion. Bush 41 took it to $300 billion. Clinton got it to zero. Bush 43 took it from zero to $1.2 trillion. Obama halved it to $600 billion. Trump’s got it back to a trillion.”
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Claim dated 23 Jul 2019.
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This claim spread on social media around 23 July 2019. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 30 July 2019, 7 days later. Its rating was “Mostly True”.
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