For his first two years in office, Clinton promoted policies based on the most extremes of reckless and irresponsible spending ever before proposed (though easily surpassed by Obama and Biden). It was the backlash against these proposed policies that led to the Republican party gaining control of both houses of Congress for the first time in forty years; whereupon Clinton caved in, and went along with whatever policies Congress dictated.
It is dishonest to give Clinton credit for these successful policies.
If Clinton had been allowed to continue with the policies that he tried to put in place before 1996, the results would have been disastrous, much like what we are now seeing under Biden.