Trump first spending bill, during a GOP house and Senate majority, was off the chain. $1.4 trillion. Years before the pandemic. Than another one before the pandemic.
Then he gave a gazillion to big pharma for that warp speed BS. And amongst all that covid money was lies, corruption and fraud that went into the trillions. He that money just went to citizens who made less than $150,000 per year and the local medical professionals (who were actually helping patients) the spending for those checks would've about 1/4 of what it was.
But that's the difference between a spend freak and a fiscal conservative.
The house passes some monstrous spending bill, and the president (if he's a fiscal conservative) get's his team together and they go through the bill, X out all the frivolous spending, veto the bill and get congress to cut out the frivolous parts.
By the time Covid came around, the House and Senate should've known that all spending bills with frivolous spending would be vetoed. But Trump, like Biden and Obama, was a spend freak. It wasn't his money. He didn't care about sticking us with the tab for things like gender studies.
Since before Reagan (but mostly Reagan), the liberal Republicans have been stiffing us with the bill, every single time. And it got old a long time ago.
You can excuse Trumps spending all you want. But the inflation increases we seen during Biden's first 1.5 years was a direct result in Trump spending and bad monetary policies. There's no two ways about it. Because it takes about 1.5 years for any new presidents monetary policies to start showing up in the economy.
