The National Debt Clock in Manhattan is a large digital display of the current gross national debt of the United States. Seymour’s normally private son, Douglas Durst, manages the National Debt Clock and the family’s real estate empire now. “Fix the debt” has long been a Republican rallying cry and many GOP leaders have seized on the debt clock as a useful prop. The National Debt Clock helped propel Congress to enact balanced budgets from 1998 to 2001, but the fiscal soundness was short-lived. Even the National Debt Clock no longer gets quite the attention it once did.

Source: Washington Post September 17, 2018 12:04 UTC