From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro. This is the day.

Today, President Trump's new budget proposal would add trillions of dollars to the federal deficit and

Republicans aren't talking about it.

Why no should be surprised.

It's Wednesday, February 14th.

We're a country that has 19 trillion dollars in debt. We're in trouble.

As a candidate, Donald Trump was very critical of the size of the national debt.

Jim Tancersley covers taxes and the economy for the times.

But the fact is, we have 19 trillion. We have 19 trillion.

So we have 19 trillion in debt. We have to get rid of it. We have to start at least knocking the heck out of it.

20 trillion dollars.

20 trillion! We owe 20 trillion dollars. Nobody even knows what it means. 20 trillion.

We're a poor country. We're a debtor nation.

And very much casted as sort of a symbol of the decline of America.

We just can't go on like this. We've been mismanaged. We've been misrun. We don't know what the hell we're doing.

By the way, when you owe 20 trillion, wouldn't it be really nice if you did have somebody that understood debt?

And Donald Trump was going to be well positioned to take care of it.

Boy, am I good at solving debt problems. Nobody can solve it like me.

One moment he even promised in an interview with the Washington Post that he would pay it off entirely if he was president for eight years.

And then what happens when Trump takes office?

Donald Trump takes office and...

It doesn't sound like President Trump is remotely concerned about deficit spending.

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