might curb spending growth, but that's been frankly an abysmal failure. every single time it has come up in congress since then, it has been raised. 78 times, in past 50 years. under both republican and democratic presidents and mostly in bipartisan fashion. the u.s. currently has nearly $29 trillion in debt, trillion, and according to u.s. treasury roughly $8 trillion of that is from the trump era, including principally his tax cuts and the early covid stimulus plans. that's what congress is faced with paying for right now. not any of the new proposals from the biden administration, and yet republicans are trying to justify their no votes by saying they don't want to fuel the democrats future big spending plans. senate minority leader mitch mcconnell taking a different tone, you might note on this debt ceiling vote than he did when republicans were in power. >> speaker pelosi and her far