Donald Trump had a hand in the country having this insane debt because Congress raised the limit like three times under him when he promised to eliminate it during his campaign trails. Let’s quickly look at this….<\/strong><\/p>\n Former United States President Donald Trump.<\/span>Photo by<\/span>Gage Skidmore \/ Flickr<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n During his campaign for the Presidency in 2016, Republican leader Donald Trump pledged that he would pay off the nation’s debt in just eight years.<\/p>\n Instead, the predictions in his budget revealed<\/a> that he would add at least $8.3 trillion, which would bring the total debt of the United States to $28.5 trillion by the year 2025. <\/p>\n However, that amount of debt was accumulated on the national level considerably more quickly, and approximately 25%% occurred under him<\/a>, most of which was added before Covid pandemic. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n