America has a huge deficit. Which candidate would make it worse?

Still, there comes a time in an election campaign when the candidates have aired enough policy ideas that budget wonks can start to work out who would preside over a bigger deficit. One such estimate, released on August 26th by the Penn Wharton Budget Model (PWBM), a non-partisan research group, seems to leave little doubt that Ms Harris would be far more fiscally responsible than Mr Trump. According to its calculations, Mr Trump’s economic agenda would increase federal deficits by $5.8trn over the next decade, nearly five times as much as Ms Harris’s platform, which would add $1.2trn to the deficit during the same period.