Deficit spikes 12 percent in first two months of fiscal year: CBO

[Papageorgio]

Government Reform | C-SPAN.org

From the day Clinton took office to the day he left, the US debt rose.

 

[KissMy]

Government Reform | C-SPAN.org

From the day Clinton took office to the day he left, the US debt rose.

You LIE!!!

 

[TomParks]

There is no shortage of money that's why they don't worry about it. There's so much wealth in this country.

 

[Papageorgio]

Government Reform | C-SPAN.org

From the day Clinton took office to the day he left, the US debt rose.

You LIE!!!

You are wrong!

Bill Clinton: Added $1.396 trillion, a 32% increase from the $4.4 trillion debt at the end of George H.W. Bush's last budget, FY 1993.

• FY 2001 - $133 billion.
• FY 2000 - $18 billion.
• FY 1999 - $130 billion.
• FY 1998 - $113 billion.
• FY 1997 - $188 billion.
• FY 1996 - $251 billion.
• FY 1995 - $281 billion.
• FY 1994 - $281 billion

Which President Increased U.S. Debt the Most?

 

[KissMy]

Republicans Reagan, Bush1 Bush2, & Trump = Fiscal Disasters!!!

 

[Papageorgio]

Government Reform | C-SPAN.org

From the day Clinton took office to the day he left, the US debt rose.

You LIE!!!

You are wrong!

Bill Clinton: Added $1.396 trillion, a 32% increase from the $4.4 trillion debt at the end of George H.W. Bush's last budget, FY 1993.

• FY 2001 - $133 billion.
• FY 2000 - $18 billion.
• FY 1999 - $130 billion.
• FY 1998 - $113 billion.
• FY 1997 - $188 billion.
• FY 1996 - $251 billion.
• FY 1995 - $281 billion.
• FY 1994 - $281 billion

Which President Increased U.S. Debt the Most?

Go ahead prove where you claimed I lied. I dare you, oh wait, you are a partisan moron and have nothing.

 

[Dana7360]

Government Reform | C-SPAN.org

From the day Clinton took office to the day he left, the US debt rose.

Debt can't be eliminated without first eliminating the deficit. That didn't happen until 1998. At that point Clinton stopped stealing from the social security fund. Then started paying off the money that reagan and the first bush stole from it. By the time Clinton was done Social Security was in the black and declared saved. Again.

He wrote and left a plan to have the reagan/bush national debt paid off by 2010 and was working his last couple years to implement it.

He did increase the debt but at the slowest pace of any president in contemporary history. When he started the national debt was around 4.5 trillion dollars. When he was finished it was around 5.6 trillion. He only added a little over a trillion to the debt.

No republican president in contemporary history has done that.

Had the bush boy kept his word and not touched Social Security, the theft would have not restarted and put the fund in jeopardy.

Had the bush boy followed the plan Clinton left, we would have become debt free in 2010.

If people would stop electing republicans we could get the national debt and budget deficit under control and eventually eliminated.

 

[Crepitus]

Absolutely ridiculous. The party in power claim deficits don't matter.

I wonder if any party will ever say, yes, deficits do matter and we need to cut spending across the board?

Just a dream.

Clinton balanced the budget. Zero deficit with hundreds of billions in surplus. He raised taxes and cut spending. When Clinton left office he left a plan to have the reagan/bush national debt paid off. Too bad the bush boy trashed it all.

The bush boy blew it with his first budget, by the time he finished in office he had taken the deficit to new historic heights just as reagan and his dad before him.

The bush boy handed Obama 1.4 trillion in deficit. By the time Obama was finished he had slashed that deficit by nearly 1 trillion down to 400 and something billion.

No he didn't go around saying the deficit was too high and spending needed to be cut.

He just raised taxes and cut spending. Which is what every responsible president does.

trump took over and in less than 3 years he has that deficit back up to a trillion dollars.

I don't want someone to talk about deficits and debt. Those who talk are all hot air. reagan went around this nation in 1980 doing just that, saying that the deficit is too high and so was the debt. Then he went on to set record highs in deficit and debt. So did the first bush and the bush boy.

I want someone who actually does something about it. In our history isn't not the republicans who decrease deficit and slows growth of debt, that would be democrats.

Please link us up to which year the debt went down during all those Clinton "surpluses".

GO!

Below are the budgetary results for President Clinton's two terms in office:

• He had budget surpluses for fiscal years 1998-2001, the only such years from 1970-2018. Clinton's final four budgets were balanced budgets with surpluses, beginning with the 1997 budget.
• The ratio of debt held by the public to GDP, a primary measure of U.S. federal debt, fell from 47.8% in 1993 to 33.6% by 2000. Debt held by the public was actually paid down by $453 billion over the 1998-2001 periods, the only time this happened between 1970 and 2018.
• Federal spending fell from 20.7% GDP in 1993 to 17.6% GDP in 2000, below the historical average (1966 to 2015) of 20.2% GDP.
• Tax revenues rose steadily from 17.0% GDP in 1993 to 20.0% GDP in 2000, well above the historical average of 17.4% GDP.
• Defense spending fell from 4.3% GDP in 1993 to 2.9% GDP by 2000, as the U.S. enjoyed a "peace dividend" in the wake of the fall of the Soviet Union. In dollar terms, defense spending fell from $292B in 1993 to $266B by 1996, then slowly rose to $295 billion by 2000.
• Non-defense discretionary spending fell from 3.6% GDP in 1993 to 3.2% GDP by 2000. In dollar terms, it grew from $248B in 1993 to $343B in 2000; robust economic growth still enabled the ratio to fall relative to GDP.[1]

Economic policy of the Bill Clinton administration - Wikipedia

 

[Politicallyinsane]

Absolutely ridiculous. The party in power claim deficits don't matter.

I wonder if any party will ever say, yes, deficits do matter and we need to cut spending across the board?

Just a dream.

Clinton balanced the budget. Zero deficit with hundreds of billions in surplus. He raised taxes and cut spending. When Clinton left office he left a plan to have the reagan/bush national debt paid off. Too bad the bush boy trashed it all.

The bush boy blew it with his first budget, by the time he finished in office he had taken the deficit to new historic heights just as reagan and his dad before him.

The bush boy handed Obama 1.4 trillion in deficit. By the time Obama was finished he had slashed that deficit by nearly 1 trillion down to 400 and something billion.

No he didn't go around saying the deficit was too high and spending needed to be cut.

He just raised taxes and cut spending. Which is what every responsible president does.

trump took over and in less than 3 years he has that deficit back up to a trillion dollars.

I don't want someone to talk about deficits and debt. Those who talk are all hot air. reagan went around this nation in 1980 doing just that, saying that the deficit is too high and so was the debt. Then he went on to set record highs in deficit and debt. So did the first bush and the bush boy.

I want someone who actually does something about it. In our history isn't not the republicans who decrease deficit and slows growth of debt, that would be democrats.

Please link us up to which year the debt went down during all those Clinton "surpluses".

GO!

Below are the budgetary results for President Clinton's two terms in office:

• He had budget surpluses for fiscal years 1998-2001, the only such years from 1970-2018. Clinton's final four budgets were balanced budgets with surpluses, beginning with the 1997 budget.
• The ratio of debt held by the public to GDP, a primary measure of U.S. federal debt, fell from 47.8% in 1993 to 33.6% by 2000. Debt held by the public was actually paid down by $453 billion over the 1998-2001 periods, the only time this happened between 1970 and 2018.
• Federal spending fell from 20.7% GDP in 1993 to 17.6% GDP in 2000, below the historical average (1966 to 2015) of 20.2% GDP.
• Tax revenues rose steadily from 17.0% GDP in 1993 to 20.0% GDP in 2000, well above the historical average of 17.4% GDP.
• Defense spending fell from 4.3% GDP in 1993 to 2.9% GDP by 2000, as the U.S. enjoyed a "peace dividend" in the wake of the fall of the Soviet Union. In dollar terms, defense spending fell from $292B in 1993 to $266B by 1996, then slowly rose to $295 billion by 2000.
• Non-defense discretionary spending fell from 3.6% GDP in 1993 to 3.2% GDP by 2000. In dollar terms, it grew from $248B in 1993 to $343B in 2000; robust economic growth still enabled the ratio to fall relative to GDP.[1]

Economic policy of the Bill Clinton administration - Wikipedia

The democratic party is the party that cares about balancing the budget and helping the poor as they do so. The republican party is a party of thiefs and snakes.

 

[blackhawk]

I have noticed the only time either party or their supporters care about it is when the other party controls the White House.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

King Trump is propping up stock market with his $5 Trillion Spending Bill approved by Repubtards.

Trump & Republicans gave Boeing $72 Billion Tax Payer Dollars, boosting their stock 400% while they delivered less than half as many aircraft. Plus their aircraft quality & safety went to crap.

Trump & Republicans run RECORD DEFICIT!!! There has never been a Republican balance budget or surplus!!!

You Idiots impeached the BEST President in History & voted against his wfe because he slashed the crime rate in half, created RECORD Jobs, Employment Rate, Innovation, Stock Market, & Created a Surplus!!!

Dick Cheney said "Ronald Reagan proved that deficits don't matter"

The surplus of 1998 came about as a result of Clinton losing the house to Republicans in 1994. That congress proposed the balanced budget implementation act. Welfare reform, etc.

 

[TomParks]

USA household net worth was reported at 113.5 trillion in the 2nd quarter of 2019...it was 88 trillion in the 1st quarter of 2016

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

I thought the house controlled the purse strings. Who is in control of the house?

Power of the Purse | US House of Representatives: History, Art & Archives

Who controls the senate which has to concur with the spending bills and who sits in the White House who has to sign off on the spending bills? Poor attempt at deflection, lame ass, but I guess that’s all you’ve got since you know you can’t defend it without being a total hypocrite

If they refused the House budget, the government shuts down. You do remember that don't you?

 

[Sun Devil 92]

Absolutely ridiculous. The party in power claim deficits don't matter.

I wonder if any party will ever say, yes, deficits do matter and we need to cut spending across the board?

Just a dream.

Clinton balanced the budget. Zero deficit with hundreds of billions in surplus. He raised taxes and cut spending. When Clinton left office he left a plan to have the reagan/bush national debt paid off. Too bad the bush boy trashed it all.

The bush boy blew it with his first budget, by the time he finished in office he had taken the deficit to new historic heights just as reagan and his dad before him.

The bush boy handed Obama 1.4 trillion in deficit. By the time Obama was finished he had slashed that deficit by nearly 1 trillion down to 400 and something billion.

No he didn't go around saying the deficit was too high and spending needed to be cut.

He just raised taxes and cut spending. Which is what every responsible president does.

trump took over and in less than 3 years he has that deficit back up to a trillion dollars.

I don't want someone to talk about deficits and debt. Those who talk are all hot air. reagan went around this nation in 1980 doing just that, saying that the deficit is too high and so was the debt. Then he went on to set record highs in deficit and debt. So did the first bush and the bush boy.

I want someone who actually does something about it. In our history isn't not the republicans who decrease deficit and slows growth of debt, that would be democrats.

Who was in congress when Clinton was doing all this great work ?

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Absolutely ridiculous. The party in power claim deficits don't matter.

I wonder if any party will ever say, yes, deficits do matter and we need to cut spending across the board?

Just a dream.

Clinton balanced the budget. Zero deficit with hundreds of billions in surplus. He raised taxes and cut spending. When Clinton left office he left a plan to have the reagan/bush national debt paid off. Too bad the bush boy trashed it all.

The bush boy blew it with his first budget, by the time he finished in office he had taken the deficit to new historic heights just as reagan and his dad before him.

The bush boy handed Obama 1.4 trillion in deficit. By the time Obama was finished he had slashed that deficit by nearly 1 trillion down to 400 and something billion.


No he didn't go around saying the deficit was too high and spending needed to be cut.

He just raised taxes and cut spending. Which is what every responsible president does.

trump took over and in less than 3 years he has that deficit back up to a trillion dollars.

I don't want someone to talk about deficits and debt. Those who talk are all hot air. reagan went around this nation in 1980 doing just that, saying that the deficit is too high and so was the debt. Then he went on to set record highs in deficit and debt. So did the first bush and the bush boy.

I want someone who actually does something about it. In our history isn't not the republicans who decrease deficit and slows growth of debt, that would be democrats.

Please link us up to which year the debt went down during all those Clinton "surpluses".

GO!

Below are the budgetary results for President Clinton's two terms in office:

• He had budget surpluses for fiscal years 1998-2001, the only such years from 1970-2018. Clinton's final four budgets were balanced budgets with surpluses, beginning with the 1997 budget.
• The ratio of debt held by the public to GDP, a primary measure of U.S. federal debt, fell from 47.8% in 1993 to 33.6% by 2000. Debt held by the public was actually paid down by $453 billion over the 1998-2001 periods, the only time this happened between 1970 and 2018.
• Federal spending fell from 20.7% GDP in 1993 to 17.6% GDP in 2000, below the historical average (1966 to 2015) of 20.2% GDP.
• Tax revenues rose steadily from 17.0% GDP in 1993 to 20.0% GDP in 2000, well above the historical average of 17.4% GDP.
• Defense spending fell from 4.3% GDP in 1993 to 2.9% GDP by 2000, as the U.S. enjoyed a "peace dividend" in the wake of the fall of the Soviet Union. In dollar terms, defense spending fell from $292B in 1993 to $266B by 1996, then slowly rose to $295 billion by 2000.
• Non-defense discretionary spending fell from 3.6% GDP in 1993 to 3.2% GDP by 2000. In dollar terms, it grew from $248B in 1993 to $343B in 2000; robust economic growth still enabled the ratio to fall relative to GDP.[1]

Economic policy of the Bill Clinton administration - Wikipedia

The democratic party is the party that cares about balancing the budget and helping the poor as they do so. The republican party is a party of thiefs and snakes.

You obviously haven't spent more than 10 seconds listening to the rantings of the Democrats in the presidential nomination clown car!

 

[keepitreal]

Remember when the Republican Party opposed massive debt spending and then Trump got elected and they forgot all about it?

The U.S. government deficit rose by 12 percent in the first two months of the 2020 fiscal year, hitting $342 billion, according to new estimates from the Congressional Budget Office.

The deficit is on track to surpass $1 trillion in the 2020 fiscal year, which began on October 1. CBO has called the deficit path "unsustainable" and warns that the increasing debt burden will push down economic growth and could worsen future financial crises.

Deficit spikes 12 percent in first two months of fiscal year: CBO

Really, seriously?!

Have you been on an extended expedition
somewhere in a galaxy, far, far away
exploring other planets and just got back to planet Earth?

Have you been trapped inside Jumanji for the past umpteen years
after rolling a 5 and getting sucked into the game,
and since kids don't play board games anymore you had to wait
until somebody from the nursing home finally rolled an 8?

WTF

NOTHING IS FREE

YOU CAN NOT CONTINUE BORROWING MONEY....
YOU CAN'T PAY BACK

BECAUSE YOU SPEND MONEY...
YOU DON'T HAVE

USING PROJECTED REVENUE...
YOU HAVEN'T COLLECTED

AND THINK YOU CAN CONTINUE....

STEALING FROM PETER TO FEED PAUL
AND STEALING FROM PAUL TO FEED MARK
AND STEALING FROM MARK TO FEED JOHN
AND STEALING FROM JOHN TO FEED LUKE
AND STEALING FROM LUKE TO FEED PETER

....WITHOUT HAVING TO FACE DIRE CONSEQUENCES

MY GOD

The CBO has been manipulating the numbers for who knows
Believe me when I say, those figures are from YEARS ago

The CBO is a fucking farce, a sham, a prop
it is a facade of being accountable to the people

They have been lying to us about the deficit and the debt,
because they do not want us to know the true extent
of their fiscal irresponsibility and corruption...IT IS CRIMINAL

Spike, yeah, hello
The CBO had these figures in their reports
waaaaay before Trump was in the picture.

Trump's fault...I THINK NOT

1. The president has no control over the mandatory budget or its deficit. That includes Social Security and Medicare benefits. These are the two biggest expenses any president has. The mandatory budget estimates what these programs will cost. The acts of Congress that created the programs also mandate the spending. Unless the president can get Congress to remove or change them, he's got to live with that spending.
   
   
2. The Constitution gave Congress, not the president, the power to control spending. The president’s budget is just a starting point. Each house of Congress prepares a discretionary spending budget. They combine them into the final budget that the president reviews and signs. If a hitch in the budget process keeps the proposed budget from being signed into law, Congress can choose to keep their agencies running at the current budget levels or it can initiate a government shutdown. This shutdown actually happened in 2013 and 2018.
   
3. Each president inherits many of his predecessors' policies. For example, every president suffered from lower revenue. That's a result of President Reagan's and President Bush's tax cuts. Presidents who raise taxes quickly become unpopular. As a result, tax cuts rarely disappear.

US Budget Deficit by President

If Hillary would have won....

Trump has done more for our economy,
for us, Main Street America, in 3 years
while enduring a constant, consistent, never ending
barrage of attacks, put downs, insults, malicious plots,
DAY IN, DAY OUT, EVERY DAY SINCE HE TOOK OFFICE....

Then Obama did in 8 fucking years
with trillions of dollars in bailouts for Wall Street
to take care of the interests of them and theirs
and sticking us with billions to pay in interest rates

The same people trashing Orange Man Bad
for 'giving welfare to millionaires', corporate tax cuts

Are the same people who praise Obama for
taking trillions, not billions, of taxpayers money
(That we are stuck paying interest on and in the spike)
that hadn't even been earned yet, to bail out the financial sector
and rescuing America from the next 'Great Depression'

Wake the fuck up!

1 benefited the average Joe
1 benefited Washington and their cronies

1 promised jobs, produced jobs and created growth
1 promised shovel ready jobs that weren't shovel ready,
falling flat, going nowhere and costing a fortune

1 has people working
1 had people unemployed

1 moved people off of welfare
1 tripled the numbers on welfare

1 has people buying homes
1 had millions lose their homes

1 spoke up for the workers who faced losing their job
1 spoke to the people that times were tough, tighten the belt

$1 trillion dollar deficit....omg, stop the presses
Budget deficits every year in Obama's first term
exceeded $1 trillion dollars

The price tags of spending/entitlement legislation
signed off by Obama during his administration
are now coming home to roost...LIKE THEY WERE SET UP TO DO

1. The cumulative 2009–19 budget deficits are set to end up at $8.93 trillion—$4.6 trillion higher than projected for the same time period when Obama took office.
   
   
2. New legislation cost $5.0 trillion over the 2009–19 period. However, $4.1 trillion of this “cost” came from basic extensions of expiring taxes including the Bush-era tax cuts. Economic stimulus added $2.0 trillion in spending, and discretionary spending caps and mandatory sequestrations saved $800 billion.
   
   
3. Virtually all net spending increases during the Obama administration were enacted during 2009–10, when Democrats controlled Congress. During the following six years, with a Republican House and eventual Republican Senate, $889 billion in net spending cuts were enacted, excluding legislation that simply extended expiring policies.
   
   
4. Obama leaves behind a budget with higher entitlement spending, lower discretionary spending, and (temporarily) lower net interest costs than originally projected. The ballooning national debt leaves taxpayers liable for exorbitant debt service costs when interest rates return to normal levels.

Upon taking office in January 2009, President Obama inherited a budget deficit that had soared from $161 billion in 2007 to a recession-slammed $1.186 trillion estimate for 2009. The January 2009 CBO baseline budget projection for 2009–19—which already incorporated the effects of the year-old recession in its projections—estimated that a strong economic recovery and the expiration of certain tax cuts would return the annual budget deficit to approximately $260 billion by 2012. In other words, the projections assumed that the high recessionary deficits would quickly fall back to earlier levels. Overall, CBO estimated that there would be $4.32 trillion in total budget deficits over the decade.

That is not what happened. Figure 1 shows that, as Obama left office, the 2009–19 budget deficits were now estimated to total $8.93 trillion—more than double the initial projections. Annual budget deficits remained above $1 trillion through 2012, fell to $438 billion by 2015, and have since begun rising once again. While current deficits of 3% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) are not historically atypical, they are significantly higher than the default baseline when Obama took office.

These deficits also exceeded the president’s own targets. A month after his inauguration, Obama pledged to “cut the deficit we inherited by half by the end of my first term in office.” Instead, the inherited $1.186 trillion was pushed up to $1.413 trillion by 2009 stimulus legislation, and then remained over $1 trillion throughout the president’s first term


The main source of lower spending: $2.3 trillion less in interest payments on the national debt, thanks to lower interest rates. These lower interest rates were a direct result of the weak economy and the Federal Reserve’s policy of keeping its target interest rates near zero, to spark growth. Consider that between 1996 and 2016, the national debt quadrupled, from $5 trillion to $20 trillion, yet interest payments were lower in 2016 than in 1996. Had the original 2009 CBO interest-rate assumptions held, the federal government would be paying a $620 billion interest tab in 2017, rather than $270 billion.

That is the good news. The bad news is that when interest rates paid by Washington return to a historically normal range of 5%–7% (or even higher, because of the soaring national debt), federal spending will explode by hundreds of billions—or even trillions—of dollars.


Obama's Fiscal Legacy: A Comprehensive Overview of Spending, Taxes, and Deficits

Manhattan Institute^

 

[TNHarley]

Remember when the Republican Party opposed massive debt spending and then Trump got elected and they forgot all about it?

The U.S. government deficit rose by 12 percent in the first two months of the 2020 fiscal year, hitting $342 billion, according to new estimates from the Congressional Budget Office.

The deficit is on track to surpass $1 trillion in the 2020 fiscal year, which began on October 1. CBO has called the deficit path "unsustainable" and warns that the increasing debt burden will push down economic growth and could worsen future financial crises.

Deficit spikes 12 percent in first two months of fiscal year: CBO

I'm almost 34 and I do not remember when Republicans actually cared about spending.

 

[Crepitus]

Absolutely ridiculous. The party in power claim deficits don't matter.

I wonder if any party will ever say, yes, deficits do matter and we need to cut spending across the board?

Just a dream.

Clinton balanced the budget. Zero deficit with hundreds of billions in surplus. He raised taxes and cut spending. When Clinton left office he left a plan to have the reagan/bush national debt paid off. Too bad the bush boy trashed it all.

The bush boy blew it with his first budget, by the time he finished in office he had taken the deficit to new historic heights just as reagan and his dad before him.

The bush boy handed Obama 1.4 trillion in deficit. By the time Obama was finished he had slashed that deficit by nearly 1 trillion down to 400 and something billion.


No he didn't go around saying the deficit was too high and spending needed to be cut.

He just raised taxes and cut spending. Which is what every responsible president does.

trump took over and in less than 3 years he has that deficit back up to a trillion dollars.

I don't want someone to talk about deficits and debt. Those who talk are all hot air. reagan went around this nation in 1980 doing just that, saying that the deficit is too high and so was the debt. Then he went on to set record highs in deficit and debt. So did the first bush and the bush boy.

I want someone who actually does something about it. In our history isn't not the republicans who decrease deficit and slows growth of debt, that would be democrats.

Please link us up to which year the debt went down during all those Clinton "surpluses".

GO!

Below are the budgetary results for President Clinton's two terms in office:

• He had budget surpluses for fiscal years 1998-2001, the only such years from 1970-2018. Clinton's final four budgets were balanced budgets with surpluses, beginning with the 1997 budget.
• The ratio of debt held by the public to GDP, a primary measure of U.S. federal debt, fell from 47.8% in 1993 to 33.6% by 2000. Debt held by the public was actually paid down by $453 billion over the 1998-2001 periods, the only time this happened between 1970 and 2018.
• Federal spending fell from 20.7% GDP in 1993 to 17.6% GDP in 2000, below the historical average (1966 to 2015) of 20.2% GDP.
• Tax revenues rose steadily from 17.0% GDP in 1993 to 20.0% GDP in 2000, well above the historical average of 17.4% GDP.
• Defense spending fell from 4.3% GDP in 1993 to 2.9% GDP by 2000, as the U.S. enjoyed a "peace dividend" in the wake of the fall of the Soviet Union. In dollar terms, defense spending fell from $292B in 1993 to $266B by 1996, then slowly rose to $295 billion by 2000.
• Non-defense discretionary spending fell from 3.6% GDP in 1993 to 3.2% GDP by 2000. In dollar terms, it grew from $248B in 1993 to $343B in 2000; robust economic growth still enabled the ratio to fall relative to GDP.[1]

Economic policy of the Bill Clinton administration - Wikipedia

The democratic party is the party that cares about balancing the budget and helping the poor as they do so. The republican party is a party of thiefs and snakes.

You obviously haven't spent more than 10 seconds listening to the rantings of the Democrats in the presidential nomination clown car!

Actually, they want to do just what Bill Clinton did.

It might be you who isn't paying attention.

 

[Brain357]

Good to hear somebody in law enforcement who gets it. This is the only country where law enforcement is regularly gunned down. This is a real patriot:



"I don't want to hear about how much they support law enforcement," Acevedo said. "I don't want to hear about how much they care about lives and the sanctity of lives yet, we all know in law enforcement that one of the biggest reasons that the Senate and Mitch McConnell and (Texas Sens.) John Cornyn and Ted Cruz and others are not getting into a room and having a conference committee with the House and getting the Violence Against Women's Act (passed) is because the NRA doesn't like the fact that we want to take firearms out of the hands of boyfriends that abuse their girlfriends. And who killed our sergeant? A boyfriend abusing his girlfriend. So you're either here for women and children and our daughters and our sisters and our aunts, or you're here for the (National Rifle Association)."


Houston police chief criticizes McConnell and Senate Republicans over guns: 'Whose side are you on?'

Trump signed the Ryan tax fraud, cut taxes and signed the deficit budget - then blames the Democrats. It is the Republican's game, and their fellow travelers whose dishonesty has become legendary.

And who MAKES the budget?

Trump has no problem signing off. And every time he talks he asks for more spending. He buy Greenland yet?

 

[Biff_Poindexter]

Remember when the Republican Party opposed massive debt spending and then Trump got elected and they forgot all about it?

The U.S. government deficit rose by 12 percent in the first two months of the 2020 fiscal year, hitting $342 billion, according to new estimates from the Congressional Budget Office.

The deficit is on track to surpass $1 trillion in the 2020 fiscal year, which began on October 1. CBO has called the deficit path "unsustainable" and warns that the increasing debt burden will push down economic growth and could worsen future financial crises.

Deficit spikes 12 percent in first two months of fiscal year: CBO

They forgot about it long before Trump did it....

Six Years After Cheney Said ‘Deficits Don’t Matter,’ The National Debt Hits A 50-Year High

But there is some republican rule where you are supposed to pretend the Bush admin never existed....