From jcahealey: Really, who needs to set priorities when your checks never bounce?
established separate annual spending caps on defense and non-defense discretionary programs , the party has seemingly been focused on one goal: making sure any increase in defense spending above the caps would be matched by an increase in non-defense spending. So they were happy to bust the caps for defense as long as they spent more on everything else as well.The incessant stimulus from the federal government in the form of giant deficits makes it hard to tell how strong the economy really is .
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget issued what has become a distressingly familiar scolding Monday, saying the deal was “a total abdication of fiscal responsibility by Congress and the President” that “may end up being the worst budget agreement in our nation’s history.” Trump, a president who craves distinctions, can now add this one: He has racked up multiple trillion-dollar deficits despite being blessed with a fully functioning economy. By the way, that’s not #WINNING.
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