Well, howdy there, Internet people, it's Bell again.

So today, we're going to talk about $38 trillion and Trump's debt growing faster and faster.

We had a question come in, and I'm sure there are more people who didn't catch the videos explaining this when it was happening.

I'll put one of them down below in the description.

So, here's the question.

Miss Bell, this might be a dumb question.

But how is our debt going up faster than ever before, after all of Trump's cuts in the one big beautiful bill,

and while the government is shut down. This is crazy. Okay, if you miss the news driving this,

the U.S. gross national debt hit 37 trillion in August. It now hit 38 trillion in October. It isn't exactly faster than ever before.

There was a period during the pandemic when we picked up a trillion in debt faster. But outside of that,

yeah, it's the fastest ever. So how is that happening? Okay, so the government being shut down generally ends up

costing the government money in the end. But beyond that, it doesn't cut as much in cost as you

might imagine in the short term. But the biggest misunderstanding in the message is the one big

beautiful bill.

Republicans told everybody it cut the deficit.

That was only true on paper.

It didn't. It increased the deficit.

Republicans change the accounting practice to sell it to their base.

Normally, budget packages use a baseline

called current law. That's a strict interpretation of the laws and statutes when calculating

future deficits. So if, hypothetically, the current law had some tax cuts expiring, it would

show increased tax revenue because those tax cuts expiring. It would show increased tax revenue, because those

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