Former US President Donald Trump urged Republican lawmakers to allow the United States to default on its debt obligations if the Democrats did not agree to “massive” spending cuts. Trump, who is running for president in 2024, stressed that letting the United States default is “better than what we’re doing now because we’re spending money like drunken sailors.”
Donald Trump’s advice on US default
Former president and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has advised Republican lawmakers to allow the United States to default on its debt obligations if Democrats do not agree to spending cuts.
Trump was asked during a CNN Town Hall television program on Wednesday about his advice to Republicans about the possibility of the United States defaulting on its debt obligations. He said:
I say to the Republicans out there — congressmen and senators — if they don’t give you deep cuts, you’re going to have to default.
And the former US president added, “I don’t think they will default because I think the Democrats will completely collapse, because you don’t want that to happen.”
Trump, who announced in November last year that he would run for president again in 2024, confirmed:
But it’s better than we do now because we spend money like drunken sailors.
When pressed to clarify whether he believed that “the United States should default if the White House does not agree to spending cuts,” Trump promptly replied:
Well, you can do that now too, because you’ll do it later. Because we must save this country. Our country is dying. Our country is being destroyed by stupid people, by very stupid people.
Trump has issued multiple warnings about the US economy and the US dollar in recent months. He claimed last month that the US dollar was collapsing and “soon it will not become the global standard”. He also warned that we are “very close” to World War III.
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told lawmakers that the Treasury Department may not be able to pay all of the government’s bills as early as June 1 “if Congress does not raise or suspend the debt limit before then.”
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