Vice President Harris Says the Treasury Secretary Has a 'Very Discreet Plan' for the $40 Trillion Debt
The plan is to grow the economy faster than the debt; further specifics were described as, appropriately, discreet
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WASHINGTON — Vice President Harris assured the country this week that the Treasury Secretary has a very discreet plan to handle the national debt, which crossed forty trillion dollars on Wednesday and did not appear to notice.
The plan, Harris explained, is to make the economy grow faster than the debt grows. Pressed for the part of the plan that was discreet — the how — officials indicated that the discretion was, in fact, the feature.
The Secretary himself added that there was nothing magic about the number forty trillion, which is true, and that the country could simply grow its way out, which is the sort of thing said with equal confidence at every debt figure that has ever been crossed while saying it.
The Press's treasury desk notes that a secret plan to grow out of the debt is either sound strategy held close to the vest or a shrug wearing a briefcase, depending entirely on which party currently holds the vest, and that the opposition's identical shrug is always described as a debt bomb.
"We inherited a debt bomb," Harris said, using the phrase the previous administration had used about the administration before it, in a chain the Press believes extends unbroken to the founding.
At press time the debt stood at forty trillion dollars and rising, the plan stood locked in a briefcase, and the key stood, discreetly, elsewhere.
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What actually happened: VP JD Vance said Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has a 'very discreet plan,' backed by the president, 'to get the United States to a point where our economy is growing faster than our debt.' Bessent said there is 'nothing magic about the $40 trillion number, and we can grow our way out of that,' after the national debt hit $40 trillion.