VIEWPOINT | Confront the debt crisis now, not later

Guest column by Michael Brooke of Indivisible 605, Change Agents of South Dakota and Common Grounds Indivisible

Michael Brooke

Dear Senator Rounds,

Thanks for your regular email updates, but forgive me for being skeptical of your claims of “fiscal responsibility” after your recent vote to raise the national debt limit another $5 trillion in the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill.”

As one of your latest updates points out, we are already almost $37 trillion in debt, and now your plan is to turn that debt into almost $42 trillion in just a few more years. Our national debt has grown dramatically virtually every year, under a White House and Congress controlled by both parties, ever since Vice President Dick Cheney declared in 2002 that “Reagan proved that deficits don’t” in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks.

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