Daily Take: They Blew Up the Debt, Stalled America’s Future, and Stuck You With the Bill. All to Enrich the Top 1% and Win Elections…
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 6 May 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Discover how America’s debt crisis was built by the GOP and why everyday people are now stuck paying the price…
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| 0:58.4 | slash Tom. They blew up the debt, stalled America's future, and stuck you with the bill, all to enrich the top 1% and win elections. |
| 1:08.7 | Republicans yesterday proposed an appropriations bill that will allocate a billion |
| 1:12.5 | dollars to pay for Trump's Golden Epstein Dance Hall, aka Ballroom. Every penny of it will be |
| 1:18.8 | borrowed and will be paying interest on that money for the rest of our lifetimes unless something |
| 1:23.1 | dramatic changes. This year, America will spend over a trillion dollars just to pay interest on the current |
| 1:31.4 | national debt, a debt entirely the result of a 45-year-old or long GOP scam designed to make the |
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