Opinion: In praise of a divided federal government
Democrats still will control the White House under President Biden and the Senate under Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York. The House speaker to be elected in January likely will be Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California, replacing another from our state, Democrat Nancy Pelosi.
By contrast, when Republicans took over everything in January 2003 under President Bush, the party that campaigned on frugality spent money faster than any time since Lyndon Johnson’s 1960s Great Society programs. The deficit soared to $1.4 trillion in President Obama’s first year in 2009 with a Democratic Congress, but dropped to $440 billion in 2015 when Republicans controlled both houses of Congress. President Trump and the Republican Congress then pushed it up again, to $780 billion in 2018.
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