evidence: Trump, however, also ran up the debt with other big-ticket items, notably his 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which cost $1.9 trillion, and two bipartisan budget laws that cost a combined $2.1 trillion, according to CRFB. Biden’s largest non-covid debt-financed initiatives were the $1.4 trillion spending laws for the 2022 and 2023 fiscal years and $620 billion of student debt relief. But the 2023 Fiscal Responsibility Act that Biden negotiated with congressional Republicans knocked $1.5 trillion off the national debt. Not counting pandemic spending, Trump added $2.5 trillion more to the debt than Biden has, according to the CRFB report. [...] "After the prior administration increased the debt by a record $8 trillion and didn’t sign a single law to reduce the deficit, President Biden has signed $1 trillion of deficit reduction into law. While congressional Republicans want to blow up the debt again with $5 trillion in more Trump tax cuts, President Biden’s budget would lower the deficit by $3 trillion by making billionaires and biggest corporations pay their fair share and cutting spending on special interests," White House spokesman Jeremy M. Edwards said in a statement.