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The United States national debt has crossed $40 trillion, with the total having doubled in under a decade, sharpening the fiscal stakes as the country moves into a midterm election cycle.
Against that backdrop, President Donald Trump is pressing a two-front strategy: headlining what the Republican Party is calling a historic midterm convention and escalating a trade dispute that has trained its sights on Canadian jetmaker Bombardier.
Both moves are framed as an effort to defy the historical pattern in which the party holding the White House tends to lose seats in off-year elections.
The Bombardier front Trump has moved against Bombardier as part of an intensifying trade dispute with Canada.
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