Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna faces pushback after naming tax cuts as a cause of the US national debt

Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna of California faced a raft of pushback on social media in response to his claim that tax cuts have caused America's enormous national debt. The lawmaker also listed war as a reason for the debt.

Khanna asserted that the four causes of the nation's debt are, "Reagan's tax cuts," "Bush's tax cuts," "Trump's tax cuts," as well as "Bush's overseas wars."

"We don't need a fiscal commission to study it. Everyone knows Johnson's fiscal commission will recommend cuts in Social Security & Medicare. Instead, we need to end the tax breaks for the ultra-rich and make a moonshot investment in American industry," he claimed.

The U.S. national debt has grown to a staggering sum of more than $33 trillion dollars.

GOP Rep. Victoria Spartz of Indiana rejected Khanna's assessment about the cause of the gargantuan debt.

"Rep. @RoKhanna is not correct: the national debt was caused by reckless spending, cronyism and spinelessness of politicians in Washington D.C. We must save promised programs for seniors and middle class from destruction by looming disastrous tax increase leading to socialism," Spartz declared in a tweet.

Others also pushed back against the congressman's comments.

"Or maybe the govt is too big?" Rob Schmitt wrote.

"You idiots in Congress spending more than you stole from us in taxes is how we ended up with eleventy gazillion dollars in debt and an increasingly worthless currency," Sean Davis tweeted.

"Our government consistently spends trillions of dollars it doesn't have and their excuse for $30T of debt is that they haven't stolen enough of our money," Michael Seifert posted.

"Tax cuts aren't government expenditures. My income isn't the government's money. Defense spending is not the predominant spending problem. The debt is from Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and other exorbitant social redistributionist spending programs. Full stop," Ben Shapiro wrote.

"So the average American's credit card debt isn't due to overspending, but failure of their employer to pay them more. Democrat logic," Jenna Ellis posted.

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