Video Report - Under Boehner: Debt Up $3 TRILLION in under 3 Yrs
Since John Boehner became speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives on Jan. 5, 2011, the debt of the federal government has increased by $3,064,063,380,067.72. That is more than the total federal debt accumulated in the first 200 years of the U.S. Congress - during the terms of the first 48 speakers of the House.
It equals about $26,722 for each of the 114,663,000 households the Census Bureau estimates are now in the United States.