Donald Trump would raise the US debt by twice as much as Kamala Harris, report finds

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : He has also promised to scrap a cap on tax deductions for state and local tax payments that was particularly loathed by wealthy suburban homeowners.
61% : For Trump, it ranges from a $1.45tn increase to one just above $15tn.
55% : For Trump, it would rise 17 percentage points to 142 per cent of GDP.
43% : The CRFB's analysis highlights the extent to which Trump has abandoned the mantle of fiscal prudence that Republican candidates and conservative politicians have often cloaked themselves in when running for office.
30% : But Trump has said he does not want to slash those schemes, and wants to cut spending on a much smaller sliver of the government budget affecting other domestic programmes, while also relying on tariffs to boost revenue.

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