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Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) drew ridicule Wednesday after blaming “socialist policies” for the national debt reaching $40 trillion, a milestone critics said he helped create.<\/p>\n

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The Iowa Republican posted on X Thursday morning, calling the debt a “wake-up call” and blaming “unaffordable socialist policies.”<\/p>\n

Readers immediately attached a Community Note to his post, reminding him that he had voted for the One Big Beautiful Bill just weeks earlier. The law raised the debt ceiling by $5 trillion. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office projects it will add $3.4 trillion to deficits over 10 years.<\/p>\n

“U.S debt hit $40T. It’s a wake-up call 4 America Voters hv (sic) 40 trillion reasons 2 reject unaffordable socialist policies American prosperity REQUIRES fiscal discipline,” Grassley wrote.<\/p>\n

The longtime senator’s complaint drew an immediate wave of criticism from commentators across the political spectrum.<\/p>\n

“Do these people really think Trump and themselves aren’t complicit?” hip-hop artist and right-leaning commentator Jason Heinrichs wrote on X. “The lack of self-awareness is astonishing.”<\/p>\n

Conservative commentator Amanda Carpenter also weighed in on the $152 billion in funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement that Grassley voted for in the same bill.<\/p>\n

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“Who voted to give ICE $152 billion dollars?” Carpenter asked on X. “How did the budget-busting Big Beautiful Bill get passed? I really wish we could get to the bottom of these debt questions.”<\/p>\n

“Personally, I wouldn’t have written this if I had been the chair of the Senate tax-writing committee who helped shepherd the Bush tax cuts, but that’s just me,” Brendan Duke, senior director for federal budget policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and a former Senate Finance Committee staffer, pointed out.<\/p>\n

“The US debt was $533 billion when Chuck Grassley was first elected to federal office in 1975,” Max Steele, senior communications director at Everytown for Gun Safety, wrote on X.<\/p>\n

Grassley was elected to the U.S. House in November 1974 and took office in January 1975. Treasury records show the gross federal debt stood at approximately $533 billion at the end of that fiscal year \u2014 consistent with Steele’s figure \u2014 meaning the debt has grown roughly 74-fold during Grassley’s 51 years in Washington.<\/p>\n

According to congressional records, Grassley voted to raise the debt ceiling six times while President George W. Bush was in office.<\/p>\n

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