claim: "we've added, in the last eight years, $4 trillion of debt to the nation's obligations."
author: rahm emanuel
evidence_1: apr 2, 2016 ... of all the wildly impossible assertions made by donald trump, the notion that he  could eliminate the nation's $19 trillion in debt in just eight years ranks near the  top. trump ... as we have noted repeatedly, eliminating a trade deficit does not  mean the money ends up in government coffers. (morever, trump ...
evidence_2: nov 2, 2015 ... when bush took office, the country was facing debt obligations of $5.8 trillion  dollars, and it increased by about the same amount by the time his second term  was up. "we've added, in the last eight years, $4 trillion of debt to the nation's  obligations,” former white house chief of staff rahm emanuel said on ...
evidence_3: feb 2, 2016 ... traditionally, congress has set a limit for how much debt the u.s. may take on,  known simply as the debt limit. but rather than put a higher limit on the debt,  lawmakers and the president have repeatedly suspended the debt limit, most  recently in november of last year through march 15, 2017. during a debt ...
evidence_4: the problem is, is that the way bush has done it over the last eight years is to  take out a credit card from the bank of china in the name of our children, driving  up our national debt from $5 trillion for the first 42 presidents -- #43 added $4  trillion by his lonesome, so that we now have over $9 trillion of debt that we are  going to ...
evidence_5: sep 12, 2016 ... when you add in likely expenses for 2017 and spending obligations to veterans  over the next four decades, the total increases to nearly $4.8 trillion. .... in the  administration in the years immediately after 9/11 was, “we can go kick their butts , kill them, remake their societies, hopefully have other people pay ...