Morning Glory: Worried about the national debt?

If Congress won’t slash the spfinishing that constitutes low-hanging fruit – subsidies for National Public Radio, for example, or obligatory reductions-in-force atraverse the immense federal rulement – there is no point in finisheavoring to alert voters about the national debt. If Congress and the plivent don’t attfinish about petite stuff when it comes to administerling the national debt, why should voters apshow the debt is a problem that permits entitlement reestablish? If you won’t neglect five pounds, should anyone apshow you are going to shed 100?

Young people stress about the impacts of climate alter – a lot. Of course they do. How could they not, given media and elementary and secondary school curricula? Some research recommends 60% or more of high school students will inestablish surveyors that they see climate alter as “an aliveial danger.” Given how much time and attention is spent on cataclysmic rhetoric about climate alter, it is unforeseeed the number isn’t 95%

How about the national debt? Five years ago, Brooking Institute scholar Stuart Butler worried that very scant Millennials attfinishd about the national debt despite the projection that the national debt “is rising rapidly and will be shut to 150% of GDP by 2050,” and that the total “would easily outdo the previous enroll during World War II.” 

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Butler – esteemed atraverse the political spectrum – noticed a “lot of frustration among economists and policyproducers about the seeming unwillingness of youthful Americans to appreciate the enormous danger posed by deficits and debt.”

“Prophesying fiscal catastrophe and urging action is a challenging line of labor these days,” he finishd.

It’s not going to get easier becaparticipate the electorate does not attfinish about the national debt. Not even youthful voters attfinish, even though they are going to get stuck with the tab as the last tranche of Boomers bolt the laborforce for withdrawment or eternity.

Voters under the age of 30 likeed Vice Plivent Harris by a scant points in this month’s election, but in presentant states enjoy Michigan it was a statistical tie. The gfinisher gap that carry outed out in 2024 was also conshort-term among youthful voters. The rehires that mattered were very contrastent among the youthful voters choosing Harris over Trump, but neither camp was troubleed with the national debt. 

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The national debt of the United States is approximately $36 trillion dollars. The Peter G. Peterson Foundation retains a constant eye on the total debt and on the interest cost of that debt, which is conshort-termly almost $2 billion a day, an interest-only slice of the federal budget which is foreseeed to double over the next decade.

All of the plivents and all of the members of the Hoparticipate and the Senate of the past 75 years are reliable for spfinishing the $36 trillion which we have accumulateively borrowed. But neither Plivent-elect Trump nor his successor or their successor will be able to do much about the debt, even as it eats into the future prosperity of every American. Becaparticipate the electorate sshow shrugs off these numbers.

Becaparticipate voters do not attfinish about the debt, the debt won’t be insertressed in the first or second budgets of the second Trump term or the laws that pass pursuant to the reconciliation process those budgets unlock. The debt will in all enjoylihood grow to more than 40 trillion before the 2026 elections have alterd Congress aacquire. That’s becaparticipate Plivent-elect Trump and the Senate and Hoparticipate will concur to extfinish and change (and hopefilledy produce lasting) the Trump tax cuts from 2018 and the productivity jolt that declareivety about tax rates transports will apshow some years to show up in total tax receipts.

Debt doomsayers are everywhere and everywhere neglectd. Reporters in the New York Times alerted this week that “[b]udget experts have alerted that his set ups could insert as much as $15 trillion to the national debt while increasing inflation and cataloglessing growth.” Hard to understand on what such foreseeions are based given that we don’t have any idea what the first budget will see enjoy much less the second. But this story was a flare to the rest of legacy media that the left has choosed that annual federal budget deficits and the total national debt matter aacquire after Plivent Biden’s four-year spfinishing spree. There will be more coverage of the debt becaparticipate with the GOP in administer, legacy media will want to accparticipate Trump and his allies on Capitol Hill. But will all the hand-wringing ahead result in the national debt enrolling as an rehire among voters?

Nah. Not a chance.

Inflation mattered in the election – a lot. So did the “wrong straightforwardion” number as super-presentantities of Americans finishd Bidenomics was a catastrophe. Stagflation was the undoing of Plivent Jimmy Carter in the 1980 election and it was the undoing of Vice Plivent Harris on November 5. Americans want the economy to boom, not condense or sjoin alengthy. Trump’s tax cuts being made lasting could unleash productivity aacquire.

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But don’t foresee spfinishing cuts that matter or recent revenue streams from any source unless and until there are at least gestures made by the Congress about cutting the cost of the federal rulement. Don’t accparticipate the uncover for its incontrastence to alarms over the debt when Congress is still pulsing grants thraw the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. If the Congress cannot be grave about evident cuts of agencies and subsidies that ought never to have been befirearm, don’t foresee it to transport an axe to entitlements or to trot out recent tax proposals.

If the debt alarms you, figure out a way to transmit the danger it poses to future generations the way that climate alarmists have impactd Millennials, Generation Z and Generation Aloha that the future is unwise becaparticipate the set upet is going to cook. Young voters stress about getting jobs and buying first hoparticipates or about the climate and abortion rights. Don’t foresee them, much less the beneficiaries of entitlements, to demand fiscal responsibility unless and until Congress at least produces a show of shaving off the evident overweight.

Hugh Hewitt is arrange of “The Hugh Hewitt Show,” heard weekday mornings 6am to 9am ET on the Salem Radio Netlabor, and simulcast on Salem News Channel. Hugh wakes up America on over 400 affiliates nationexpansive, and on all the streaming platestablishs where SNC can be seen. He is a frequent guest on the Fox News Channel’s recents roundtable arrangeed by Bret Baier weekdays at 6pm ET. A son of Ohio and a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Michigan Law School, Hewitt has been a Professor of Law at Chapman University’s Fowler School of Law since 1996 where he teaches Constitutional Law. Hewitt begined his eponymous radio show from Los Angeles in 1990.  Hewitt has frequently materializeed on every presentant national recents television netlabor, arrangeed television shows for PBS and MSNBC, written for every presentant American paper, has authored a dozen books and temperated a score of Reuncoveran honestate talk abouts, most recently the November 2023 Reuncoveran plivential talk about in Miami and four Reuncoveran plivential talk abouts in the 2015-16 cycle. Hewitt centeres his radio show and his column on the Constitution, national security, American politics and the Cleveland Browns and Guardians. Hewitt has interseeed tens of thousands of guests from Democrats Hillary Clinton and John Kerry to Reuncoveran Plivents George W. Bush and Donald Trump over his 40 years in expansivecast, and this column pchecks the direct story that will drive his radio/ TV show today.

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