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Search results for "Florida's Debt Clock counts down. More than 50 of the debt retired in the past 8 years."

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Fact-checks (25710)

George LeMieux stated on January 08, 2010 in a message on Twitter:
"Why is January 8th an important date in American history? This day in 1835 is the only day in our history when we have not been in debt."
By Aaron Sharockman• January 12, 2010
Joe Scarborough stated on September 11, 2018 in a newspaper column:
"President Trump’s Republican Party will create more debt in one year than was generated in the first 200 years of America’s existence."
By Louis Jacobson• September 12, 2018
Adam Hasner stated on May 10, 2011 in a tweet:
" 'Scary' fact about our national debt. In 1791 it was $75 million. Today, it rises by that amount in about an hour."
By Katie Sanders• May 20, 2011
Social Media stated on February 07, 2025 in a post:
“US Debt Clock” numbers prove “DOGE has saved taxpayers $64 billion dollars in just 17 days.”
By Sara Swann• February 21, 2025
Marco Rubio stated on November 20, 2013 in a speech at the American Enterprise Institute:
"I did not support the sequester."
By Amy Sherman• November 26, 2013
Bill Clegg stated on June 24, 2010 in candidate web page:
The U.S. deficit "increases at $3 million per second."
By C. Eugene Emery Jr.• July 2, 2010
Frank Guinta stated on August 21, 2012 in a television ad, “Future.”:
$50,000. That's what every child owes today because Washington politicians have run up a huge spending tab and left our kids the bill."
By Jake Berry• September 12, 2012
Rick Perry stated on September 21, 2012 in a tweet.:
Says Barack Obama has added $16 trillion to the national debt.
By W. Gardner Selby• September 25, 2012
Bob McDonnell stated on January 27, 2010 in the Republican response to the State of the Union:
"The amount of debt is on pace to double in five years and triple in 10. The federal debt is now over $100,000 per household."
By Aaron Sharockman• January 28, 2010
Chris Christie stated on August 28, 2012 in a speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa:
There has been "$5 trillion in debt added over the last four years."
By Louis Jacobson• August 29, 2012
Americans for Prosperity stated on August 14, 2012 in an Americans for Prosperity attack ad:
Says President Obama said of the national debt, "If I don't have this done in three years, then there's going to be a one-term proposition."
By Joshua Gillin• August 16, 2012
Jim Jordan stated on January 20, 2011 in a speech to the Heritage Foundation:
"Our debt to GDP ratios, our deficit to GDP ratios are quickly approaching the countries we have been reading about for the last year and a half. We are not far behind Ireland, Greece, Portugal and Spain and all these countries we have been reading about."
By Sabrina Eaton• February 16, 2011
Rick Scott stated on December 14, 2012 in a TV interview:
"In the four years before I became governor, we increased state debt $5.2 billion. We've paid it down $2 billion."
By Katie Sanders• January 10, 2013
Randy Forbes stated on January 24, 2012 in a blog post.:
"The national debt is equal to $48,700 for every American or $128,300 for every U.S. household. It is now equivalent to the size of our entire economy."
By Sean Gorman• February 3, 2012
Richard Durbin stated on February 23, 2014 in an interview on "Fox News Sunday":
Under current policies, "we're going to reduce the overall debt of the United States by $3 trillion over the next 10 years."
By Louis Jacobson• February 25, 2014
Bill Clinton stated on September 19, 2010 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
"We paid down the debt for four years -- paid down $600 billion on the national debt."
By Louis Jacobson• September 23, 2010
Marco Rubio stated on March 30, 2011 in an opinion article in the 'Wall Street Journal':
To pay for government growth, leaders of both parties "borrowed $4 billion a day, leaving us with today's $14 trillion debt."
By Laura Figueroa• April 15, 2011
Mitt Romney stated on May 16, 2012 in a speech in St. Petersburg, Fla.:
National debt plus unfunded liabilities adds up to $520,000 per American household.
By Amy Sherman• May 22, 2012
Truth in Accounting stated on August 04, 2014 in a recent report:
Each Georgia taxpayer would have to send $5,000 to the treasury to cover the state’s debt.
By April Hunt• August 27, 2014
Lenny Curry stated on April 14, 2013 in an interview with Central Florida News 13:
"Rick Scott has paid down our debt by about $2 billion. Charlie Crist’s debt went up about $5 billion."
By Katie Sanders• April 17, 2013

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