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That is sadly the Republican way now.
In an article about getting funding to rebuild the Francis Scott Key Bridge...
Extreme partisanship, which took hold long before Trump took control of the G.O.P., is part of the answer. It was clear through most of the Obama years that Republicans wanted to prevent good things from happening on a Democratic president’s watch. Under Obama, G.O.P. legislators squeezed federal spending after they took control of the House, supposedly because they were worried about government debt, only to open up the taps once Trump took office.Odd, isn't it, how debt swells under Republican administrations?
Finally, to the extent that Trump had anything like an infrastructure plan, it was very, well, Trumpian. Even before he took office, I predicted that he wouldn’t actually do much to build infrastructure, because he and his associates clearly weren’t interested in producing a clean plan for government investment. Instead, they were floating a roundabout scheme involving tax credits that wouldn’t have generated significant new investment but probably would have offered huge opportunities for cronyism and corruption.Cronyism and Corruption should be the slogan for Trumpers, not MAGA.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/01/opinion/baltimo...And the national debt? It's only an issue for Republicans when they are not in power. And their solution of tax cuts for the rich just digs us a deeper debt hole.
Since 1981, federal budget deficits have increased under Republican presidents Reagan, both Bushes and Trump, while deficits have declined under Democratic presidents Clinton and Obama. The economy ran surpluses during Clinton's last four fiscal years, the first surpluses since 1969.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._economic_perfor....
