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President Donald Trump and Congress keep piling more debt onto our children and grandchildren.

What will Wisconsin’s congressional candidates do about it? We want to know. Voters in the Nov. 6 elections deserve clear and specific answers.

America’s annual budget deficit is approaching $1 trillion this fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30. And that’s on top of $21.5 trillion in total national debt.

The Congressional Budget Office last week reported the annual deficit is increasing faster than it predicted last spring. During the first 11 months of Trump’s first full fiscal year in the White House (October through last month), the deficit totaled $895 billion — an increase of $222 billion over the same period the previous year, which is a 33 percent hike.

So much for the Republican tax cuts paying for themselves. Instead, America keeps digging deeper into debt, and the conservative party that claims to be fiscally responsible doesn’t seem to care.

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That has to change.