claim: obama's proposed budget "doubles the debt in five years, triples it in 10 years."
author: judd gregg
evidence_1: jan 28, 2010 ... mcdonnell's claim that the debt is on pace to double in five years and triple in 10  is not a new talking point for republicans. judd gregg (the republican senator  from new hampshire who was almost obama's commerce secretary) said the  same thing about obama's proposed 2010 budget last march.
evidence_2: jan 26, 2010 ... "will the budget still double the debt over five years and triple it over 10? that's  the bottom line." the senior administration officials acknowledged that  discretionary spending is only about one-sixth of the entire federal budget, and  that much larger savings would come from cutting entitlement programs like ...
evidence_3: apr 10, 2012 ... the budget proposal he submitted to congress last year continues down the  same unsustainable path: doubling the size of government since the president  took office, imposing $1.6 trillion in new taxes on families, small businesses and  job creators and tripling the debt since the president was elected.
evidence_4: jul 11, 2016 ... the economic crisis drove the unemployment rate to 10 percent within months of  obama's first entering office. ... job openings — the number of job openings has  more than doubled under obama to the highest number in the more than 15  years the bureau of labor statistics has been tracking it. in april ...
evidence_5: jul 25, 2016 ... however, measuring debt in dollars fails to account for inflation or the fact that the  economy and population are larger in 2016 than they were in 2008. measured as  a share of the economy, the debt nearly doubled from 39.4 percent at the end of  fiscal year (fy) 2008 (four months before obama took office) ...