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Joe Biden stated on March 7, 2024 in his State of the Union address The Trump administration "added more to the national debt than any presidential term in American history." Joe Biden stated on March 7, 2024 in a State of the Union address "We’ve already cut the federal deficit by over $1 trillion." Mike Johnson stated on November 5, 2023 in an interview on "Fox News Sunday" “Only in Washington can you cut funding, add a pay-for to a new spending measure, and they say it's terrible for the deficit.” Joe Biden stated on August 29, 2023 in a speech at the White House “According to the Congressional Budget Office,” the Inflation Reduction Act “will save the federal government $160 billion over the next 10 years because Medicare will be paying less for the prescription drugs they’re making available to seniors.” Mike Pence stated on August 23, 2023 in a Republican presidential debate in Milwaukee "I actually pushed the Deficit Reduction Act. That was the last time we actually reduced the national debt in the United States, when I was the leader of House conservatives." Devin LeMahieu stated on January 3, 2023 in Senate address "In 2010, (Wisconsin Republicans) inherited a multi-Billion dollar deficit … Today we are looking at a projected surplus approaching 7 Billion." Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stated on January 27, 2023 in an interview with reporters “The largest contributor to the debt ceiling, or to our deficit, has been the Trump tax cuts.” Occupy Democrats stated on January 12, 2023 in a Facebook post "Social Security has nothing to do with the deficit or the national debt." Joe Biden stated on September 18, 2022 in an interview with CBS' "60 Minutes" “This year, it's going to be over $1.5 trillion (that we’ve) reduced the debt." Janet Yellen stated on July 24, 2022 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press" "We've cut the deficit by a record $1.5 trillion this year." Joe Biden stated on May 10, 2022 in remarks at the White House “My Treasury Department is planning to pay down the national debt this quarter, which never happened under my predecessor.” Lindsey Graham stated on December 12, 2021 in an interview on Fox News Sunday “The CBO says (the Build Back Better Act) is $3 trillion of deficit spending.” Kevin McCarthy stated on November 18, 2021 in a House floor speech “Never in American history has so much been spent at one time. Never in American history will so many taxes be raised and so much borrowing be needed to pay for this reckless spending.” Joe Biden stated on October 6, 2021 in remarks at the White House “Raising the debt limit is paying our old debts. It has nothing to do with new spending.” Nikki Haley stated on June 28, 2021 in a Facebook post “The national debt is now bigger than our economy. That hasn’t happened since World War Two – and we’re in peacetime. Joe Biden is digging a hole America can never fill.” Wisconsin Republican Legislative leaders stated on April 7, 2021 in Twitter Wisconsin’s 2019-21 budget produced the first positive general fund balance since 2000, and the governor’s proposed 2021-23 budget would return it to a deficit. Ted Cruz stated on October 26, 2020 in an interview Says Trump “didn’t campaign on cutting the debt” … “That’s not what he promised to do.” Donald Trump stated on October 14, 2020 in a discussion with business leaders Speaking of the federal debt before the coronavirus pandemic, “we were starting to get that number down.” X posts stated on July 23, 2019 in a tweet "Reagan took the deficit from $70 billion to $175 billion. Bush 41 took it to $300 billion. Clinton got it to zero. Bush 43 took it from zero to $1.2 trillion. Obama halved it to $600 billion. Trump’s got it back to a trillion." Donald Trump stated on April 27, 2019 in a rally "We have been losing to China for many years, $500 billion a year. Load more
Joe Biden stated on March 7, 2024 in his State of the Union address The Trump administration "added more to the national debt than any presidential term in American history."
Joe Biden stated on March 7, 2024 in a State of the Union address "We’ve already cut the federal deficit by over $1 trillion."
Mike Johnson stated on November 5, 2023 in an interview on "Fox News Sunday" “Only in Washington can you cut funding, add a pay-for to a new spending measure, and they say it's terrible for the deficit.”
Joe Biden stated on August 29, 2023 in a speech at the White House “According to the Congressional Budget Office,” the Inflation Reduction Act “will save the federal government $160 billion over the next 10 years because Medicare will be paying less for the prescription drugs they’re making available to seniors.”
Mike Pence stated on August 23, 2023 in a Republican presidential debate in Milwaukee "I actually pushed the Deficit Reduction Act. That was the last time we actually reduced the national debt in the United States, when I was the leader of House conservatives."
Devin LeMahieu stated on January 3, 2023 in Senate address "In 2010, (Wisconsin Republicans) inherited a multi-Billion dollar deficit … Today we are looking at a projected surplus approaching 7 Billion."
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stated on January 27, 2023 in an interview with reporters “The largest contributor to the debt ceiling, or to our deficit, has been the Trump tax cuts.”
Occupy Democrats stated on January 12, 2023 in a Facebook post "Social Security has nothing to do with the deficit or the national debt."
Joe Biden stated on September 18, 2022 in an interview with CBS' "60 Minutes" “This year, it's going to be over $1.5 trillion (that we’ve) reduced the debt."
Janet Yellen stated on July 24, 2022 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press" "We've cut the deficit by a record $1.5 trillion this year."
Joe Biden stated on May 10, 2022 in remarks at the White House “My Treasury Department is planning to pay down the national debt this quarter, which never happened under my predecessor.”
Lindsey Graham stated on December 12, 2021 in an interview on Fox News Sunday “The CBO says (the Build Back Better Act) is $3 trillion of deficit spending.”
Kevin McCarthy stated on November 18, 2021 in a House floor speech “Never in American history has so much been spent at one time. Never in American history will so many taxes be raised and so much borrowing be needed to pay for this reckless spending.”
Joe Biden stated on October 6, 2021 in remarks at the White House “Raising the debt limit is paying our old debts. It has nothing to do with new spending.”
Nikki Haley stated on June 28, 2021 in a Facebook post “The national debt is now bigger than our economy. That hasn’t happened since World War Two – and we’re in peacetime. Joe Biden is digging a hole America can never fill.”
Wisconsin Republican Legislative leaders stated on April 7, 2021 in Twitter Wisconsin’s 2019-21 budget produced the first positive general fund balance since 2000, and the governor’s proposed 2021-23 budget would return it to a deficit.
Ted Cruz stated on October 26, 2020 in an interview Says Trump “didn’t campaign on cutting the debt” … “That’s not what he promised to do.”
Donald Trump stated on October 14, 2020 in a discussion with business leaders Speaking of the federal debt before the coronavirus pandemic, “we were starting to get that number down.”
X posts stated on July 23, 2019 in a tweet "Reagan took the deficit from $70 billion to $175 billion. Bush 41 took it to $300 billion. Clinton got it to zero. Bush 43 took it from zero to $1.2 trillion. Obama halved it to $600 billion. Trump’s got it back to a trillion."
Donald Trump stated on April 27, 2019 in a rally "We have been losing to China for many years, $500 billion a year.
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The deficit has fallen under Joe Biden. It’s still higher than before the pandemic. By Louis Jacobson • March 5, 2024 The Democrats’ overstated claim that the Inflation Reduction Act curbs debt, inflation By Louis Jacobson • August 19, 2022 Fact-checking Ted Cruz's 'Real State of the Union' By Nusaiba Mizan • March 17, 2022 Deficit ‘prediction’ for infrastructure bill varies widely from estimates By Tom Kertscher • November 10, 2021 The looming debt-ceiling showdown: What you need to know By Louis Jacobson • September 22, 2021
