The Best Combo to Restrain Spending? A Democratic President and GOP Congress.

Source: The Dispatch
by Brian Reidl

“Both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are running on policies that would push budget deficits toward $4 trillion a decade from now — and hoping for a same-party Congress that rubber stamps their expensive agendas. For voters who still worry about unsustainable government debt (all eight of us), navigating various election outcomes is not always straightforward. In recent decades, however, combining a Democratic president with a Republican Congress has produced the most fiscally restrained outcomes.” [editor’s note: Yes, because the last four years, and six years of Obama with a GOP Congress, were SOOOOO “fiscally restrained” – TLK] (10/31/24)

https://thedispatch.com/article/restrain-spending-democratic-president-gop-congress/