Welcome to $9 trillion worth of debt. Ah, the responsibility society that Bush promised us. It just didn't apply to him, did it? Kicker:

The total national debt is actually higher than $9 trillion because it includes borrowing by some agencies that are not covered by the congressional debt limit. That total was $9.086 trillion on Tuesday.

It took the country from George Washington until Ronald Reagan to reach the first $1 trillion in debt.

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