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The Deficit Grew Because Trump’s a Republican, Not Because He’s an Idiot
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Nov 26, 2018 12:06pm |
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| Category | Commentary |
| Author | Jonathan Chait |
| News Date | Monday, November 26, 2018 03:15:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | President Trump has been demanding that his aides draft a plan to reduce the swelling budget deficit while simultaneously ruling out virtually all categories of possible deficit reduction and demanding new deficit-increasing measures of his own. The Washington Post has plenty of hilarious details from the administration’s internal fiscal deliberations, such as they are. Trump comes across as possessing every bit as much fiscal acumen as you would expect from a man who managed to bankrupt a casino, required hundreds of millions of dollars in secret cash infusions from his father to stay afloat, and can barely absorb written material of even the shortest length.
The Post’s account draws heavily from the perspective of Trump’s current and former advisers, who treat his buffoonery as the central cause of the administration’s fiscal straits. But the reality is that Trump is simply expressing a more ignorant version of standard-issue Republican budgeting. |
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