A question

[PNWest]

Donald J Trump had a republican house and a republican senate for his first two years. There were no new wars or any national emergencies that requiored massive funding. Nothing major was done to rebuild America infrastructure.

How many balanced budgets were passed?

How much did he bring the deficit down?

 

[Bugsy McGurk]

A trillion and half for new massive tax cuts for the fatcats and elimination of the NSA pandemic response team “to achieve efficiency.” Exploding deficits and a catastrophic pandemic devastating America.

GOP rule, in a nutshell.

 

[PNWest]

A trillion and half for new massive tax cuts for the fatcats and elimination of the NSA pandemic response team “to achieve efficiency.” Exploding deficits and a catastrophic pandemic devastating America.

GOP rule, in a nutshell.

Yep - The shortbussers are always gaslighting claiming that they are the party of responsible spending. The facts as usual prove them to be liars.

 

[Emily]

Trump made a 'yuge' strategic blunder in his first two years, imo. He took a "go along to get along" approach to the (R) majorities. This resulted in a budget and a tax overhaul very unlike what he wanted and proposed along with shifts & delays in priorities. His many poor choices for administration appointees made it all the harder to get his vision implemented.

The (D) leadership also made a strategic error: They chose vehement hostility over compromise & cooperation. Had they chosen the latter, they could have gotten a lot of the things they want. If they'd just gone along to an appreciable degree with some of Trump's pet projects, he'd have gone along with much of their agenda, either favoring it or just not caring one way the other.

Of course, the public never glimpses what goes on in the back rooms of DC, but my guess is that both Trump and (D) leaders threw away an opportunity. Trump should have surrounded himself with experienced expert insiders (a la Reagan) and taken a strong handed approach with congress toward his priorities (a la LBJ). Congressional (D) leaders should have cooperated on some of his favored issues and massaged his ego.

There were no new wars or any national emergencies that requiored massive funding.

Just the pre-existing and still ongoing wars that have become the new normal. It'd been nice to have had those trillions for -- oh, i dunno -- public health, maybe. But, hey, priorities, right?

 

[as seen on tv]

Donald J Trump had a republican house and a republican senate for his first two years. There were no new wars or any national emergencies that requiored massive funding. Nothing major was done to rebuild America infrastructure.

How many balanced budgets were passed?

How much did he bring the deficit down?

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The last time we had a balanced budget was a single year in the bill Clinton Era.

Taxes from stock market gains during the doctor craze caused a revenue surge.

Capitalism is how taxes get paid, even if Bernie is blind to this . . .