[ Politics ] Open Question : How can Reps tout themselves as financially responsible?

....yet they alone raise, often double the National Deficit? NATIONAL DEFICIT; FROM REAGAN TO TRUMP Alex Cole, a political news editor at the website Newsitics The federal deficit went from about $78.9 billion at the beginning of Reagan’s presidency to $152.6 billion at the end of it. It was $255 billion at the end of Bush’s term. Clinton managed to zero out the deficit and end his term with a $128.2 billion surplus. Bush, 43, left office in 2009 with a federal deficit of roughly $1.41 trillion. Obama left the presidency with a deficit of approximately $584.6 billion, which is more than halving $1.41 trillion. Trump’s got it back to a trillion.

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