Claim: The national debt of $16 trillion, is "enough to buy both the Cleveland Indians and Cincinnati Reds 1,918 times."
Fact-check: Rob Portman says national debt is enough to buy Indians, Reds baseball franchises more than 1,900 times
Verdict: mostly-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Tom Feran
Date published: 2012-09-21T00:00:00