September 9, 2025 | WASHINGTON, D.C. — As President Trump’s economic policies cater to billionaires and big corporations at the expense of working people, top right-wing public figures are doing damage control—sounding alarms and demanding action to address the rising strain debt poses in families’ financial lives.
“The bottom 50% has debt,” said U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent earlier this year. “They have credit card bills. They rent their homes. They have auto loans. And we’ve got to give them some relief.”
“America is our home. And it’s falling apart,” tweeted Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene. “When my children’s generation are buried in credit card debt, student loan debt, can’t afford rent, can’t afford car insurance, health insurance, and feel like they will never be able to afford to buy a home…As a mother, I can’t see it any other way.”
“Donald Trump was a distress signal by a lot of young people, especially young men that were stuck in our credit-centric, renter economy,” said right-wing activist Charlie Kirk. “Conservatives are just so unwilling to have this conversation. I know this for certain, so many people in DC have no idea what I’m talking about when I bring this up to them.”
“Credit card debt is the single biggest cause of human suffering that I’m aware of,” said Tucker Carlson. “I believe in the things right in front of me, the things I can touch and smell, and the people I can touch and smell are suffering not from Iran; not from Qatar. They’re suffering from their credit cards and the inability of their kids to buy a house.”
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