Democrats Work To Tax And Spend Even More As Federal Debt, Deficits Mushroom

As they work to ram through their massive tax-and-spending bill, Democrats suddenly want to take credit as fiscally responsible deficit cutters:

Trump budget bill INCREASED the deficit by $4 TRILLION.

Biden budget bill (announced last night) DECREASES the deficit by $300 BILLION.

There’s only one fiscally responsible party.

— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) July 28, 2022

Forget for the moment that the original Build Back Better legislation proposed roughly $5 trillion in budget-busting spending. Also ignore that, notwithstanding the inflated $4 trillion cost of the President Trump tax bill quoted in Murphy’s tweet, Republicans also have a far-from-stellar record at cutting spending.

But even assuming the Democrat bill reduces the deficit by the $300 billion over a decade that Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., alleges, take

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