US National Debt

1929 $ 17 billion

--------------------Multiplier 2.35 --Herbert C. Hoover - Franklin D. Roosevelt

1939 $ 40 billion

--------------------Multiplier 6.33 --Franklin D. Roosevelt - Harry S. Truman - World War 2

1949 $ 253 billion

--------------------Multiplier 1.13 --Harry S. Truman - Dwight D. Eisenhower

1959 $ 285 billion

--------------------Multiplier 1.24 --Dwight D. Eisenhower - John F. Kennedy - Lyndon B. Johnson

1969 $ 354 billion

--------------------Multiplier 2.34 --Richard M. Nixon - Gerald R. Ford - James E. Carter

1979 $ 827 billion

------------------------------Multiplier 3.45 --James E. Carter to 1981 - Ronald W. Reagan

1989 $ 2 trillion 857 billion

-------------------------------Multiplier 1.98 --George H. W. Bush to 1993 - William J. Clinton

1999 $ 5 trillion 656 billion

-------------------------------Multiplier 2.11 --William J. Clinton to 2000 - George W. Bush to 2008

2009 $ 11 trillion 910 billion

-------------------------------Multiplier 1.85? --Barack Obama to 2017 - Donald J. Trump

2019 $ ?

If we hit 22 trillion by 2019 that would be a Multiplier of 1.85 from 2009 --Barack Obama - Donald J. Trump

That is one possible projection, no one can predict the future.

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