| America's economic death spiral isn't about the math --it's all on Trump President Donald Trump has added $2 trillion to America's budget deficit in 2026, swelling the ballooning debt to $40 trillion. Even as economists continue to express alarm about the daunting math, a top economist argued on Wednesday that the deeper issue is in fact Trump himself. People do not trust him because of things like him running up the deficit, and that impacts the economy. |