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Rob Portman stated on August 10, 2011 in a news release:

U.S. debt is "now equal to 100 percent of the GDP."

By Stephen Koff• August 18, 2011

Ted Cruz stated on August 28, 2012 in his speech to the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida.:

Says our national debt is greater than our gross domestic product.

By W. Gardner Selby• August 29, 2012

Mike Pence stated on March 24, 2023 in an interview with Fox Business' Maria Bartiromo:

“We have a national debt the size of our nation’s economy for the first time since World War II.”

By Louis Jacobson• March 30, 2023

John Boehner stated on January 05, 2011 in a speech in the House of Representatives:

"Our spending has caught up with us, and our debt soon will eclipse the entire size of our national economy."

By Stephen Koff• January 10, 2011

Nikki Haley stated on June 28, 2021 in a Facebook post:

“The national debt is now bigger than our economy. That hasn’t happened since World War Two – and we’re in peacetime. Joe Biden is digging a hole America can never fill.”

By Jason Asenso, Louis Jacobson• July 2, 2021

John Boehner stated on March 24, 2010 in an op-ed in the Des Moines Register:

"Our national debt ... is on track to exceed the size of our entire economy ... in just two more years."

By Louis Jacobson• March 26, 2010

Judd Gregg stated on March 25, 2009 in a Fox News interview:

Obama's budget plan would "take national debt up to about 80 percent of gross national product. ... Historically, it's been about 40 percent."

By Robert Farley• March 26, 2009

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

Bob McDonnell stated on May 20, 2011 in an interview.:

For more than 30 years after World War II, there was a steady reduction in U.S. debt as a percentage of gross domestic product.

By Sean Gorman• May 25, 2011

Jim DeMint stated on June 26, 2011 in an interview on CNN's "State of the Union with Candy Crowley":

"We've got more revenue than we ever have."

By Louis Jacobson• June 28, 2011

Saxby Chambliss stated on August 02, 2011 in a press release:

The deal to raise the federal debt limit created the "largest debt ceiling increase in America’s history."

By Willoughby Mariano• August 8, 2011

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

Barack Obama stated on July 02, 2015 in a speech:

"We've cut the deficit by two-thirds."

By Tom Kertscher• July 8, 2015

Barack Obama stated on January 20, 2015 in his 2015 State of the Union address:

We've seen "our deficits cut by two-thirds."

By Katie Sanders• January 21, 2015

Matt Miller stated on February 24, 2011 in a column in the Washington Post:

Says Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget "roadmap … doesn't balance the budget until the 2060s and … adds an unthinkable $62 trillion to the national debt between now and then."

By Louis Jacobson• March 3, 2011

Arianna Huffington stated on July 24, 2011 in a roundtable segment on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":

"Most countries have no debt ceiling."

By Louis Jacobson• July 25, 2011

Ron Johnson stated on July 25, 2011 in a television interview:

"The federal government is spending 25 percent of our entire economy versus 100 years ago we spent only 2 percent."

By Dave Umhoefer• July 31, 2011

Bob McDonnell stated on February 24, 2012 in a symposium.:

President Obama's "budget would call for about $25 trillion in debt by the end of his term, if he was re-elected."

By Sean Gorman• March 5, 2012

Paul Ryan stated on January 25, 2011 in a response to the State of the Union address:

"The debt will soon eclipse our entire economy."

By Louis Jacobson, Stephen Koff• January 26, 2011

Bobby Jindal stated on February 26, 2014 in an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe":

"Our economy (in Louisiana) has grown 50 percent faster than the national GDP, even since the national recession."

By Louis Jacobson• February 27, 2014

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