And here is our fiscally "responsible" Republican Party. What happened to the deficit hawks? What happened to all the wailing and gnashing of teeth about the growing debt when Obama was in office?
The Trump administration last month sharply revised upward its deficit estimates, projecting annual deficits will once again top $1 trillion next year.
For the current budget year, which ends Sept. 30, the administration is now projecting a deficit of $890 billion. That would be up 33.7 percent from last year’s deficit of $665.8 billion.
The administration’s July estimates project that the deficit will top $1 trillion in 2019, climbing to $1.1 trillion that year, and remaining above $1 trillion for three years.
US budget deficit totals $76.9 billion in July
Republicans only cared about that when Trump was running for office. Now they could care less.
Trump was never afraid of running deficits. Said so MULTIPLE times in his campaign. Voters knew well he had no fundamental opposition to running debts. Look at his business finances.
So when Trump said he would run the government like a business.......he meant massively increasing its debt load?
So how many budget hawks do you have in YOUR tribe? I think you done shot them all in head by now.. No more Blue Dog Dems that used to restrain YOUR spending.
Don't think that ANY Dem truly Gives a freak about debt and deficit until they are locked out of power...
At this point, do you think that republicans care about the budget? They *gleefully* exploded our deficit to give corporations a massive and unnecessary tax cut. Again, US corporations already had record profits. The economic trendline barely budged.
Even Forbes writers were dumbounded by this tax cut and deficit explosion in the midst of an economic expansion.
'Fiscal Responsibility' is just lip service. Just like republican commitment to 'free trade' (tarriffs anyone), States Rights (California can no longer set its own air quality standards), 'family values' (Grab them by the *****, hush money for pornstars), and keeping government out of business (Trump's threats against Harley Davidson, Carrier and others).
The Republican party no longer stands for much of anything. They've sacrificed their identity for.......Trump.