Name the last Republican to balance the budget and/or yield a surplus

[Oldestyle]

Bill Clinton was the last Dem to do it with the help of Newt Gingrich

Bill Clinton never had a surplus! Anyone that thinks he did failed basic economics!

 

[Oddball]

Bill Clinton was the last Dem to do it with the help of Newt Gingrich

Wrong.


Bill Clinton never ....NEVER....balanced a budget, nor produced a surplus.

It is simply one more Leftwing lie.

He had a deficit every single year in the Presidency.

1. In 2000, President Clinton stated that the recent surplus “represented the largest one-year debt reduction in the history of the United States…the $5.7 trillion national debt has been reduced by $360 billion in the last three years -- $223 billion this year alone.” President Clinton announces another record budget surplus - September 27, 2000

CNN stated “The federal budget surplus for fiscal year 1999 was $122.7 billion, and $69.2 billion for fiscal year 1998. Those back-to-back surpluses, the first since 1957, allowed the Treasury to pay down $138 billion in national debt.” Ibid.

So, it seems, not only did President Clinton run a surplus, but he reduced the national debt!

Would you like to see the actual national debt figures?

1993	4,351,044​
1994	4,643,307​
1995	4,920,586​
1996	5,181,465​
1997	5,369,206​
1998	5,478,189​
1999	5,605,523​
2000	5,628,700​
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end of FY 2001, which was President Clinton's last budget.	​

http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/Historicals/ (table 7.1)

The table 7.1 will also show that he inherited a $4 trillion debt.

Government - Historical Debt Outstanding - Annual 1950 - 1999

That means the debt increased 41% under Clinton.
And no wars or military build up to blame it on!

To be fully truthful here, it's a bipartisan lie.