“Only Democrats run up the deficit! Republicans are fiscally responsible!”

What You Say

CBO data shows the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act added roughly $1.9 trillion to deficits over a decade — the largest peacetime debt increase came under Republican trifectas in 2001 and 2017. Trump and Biden both signed emergency spending; the structural gap is tax cuts for corporations and wealthy estates, not food stamps. Fiscal responsibility means looking at Treasury statements, not rally slogans.