Can we stop pretending Republicans care about cutting spending now?

[UCmeNdc]

On Wednesday, Congressional leadership seemed united behind a budget deal that looks truly awful — at least if you care about the country’s financial future. The bipartisan deal blasts through budget caps and could return the U.S. to trillion-dollar deficits in short order. Right after getting historic tax reform passed, politicians apparently seem content to toss a huge future tax hike onto the next generation. After all, the bills will eventually come due.

And they are serious bills indeed. The proposed deal would include a one-year debt limit suspension, while raising defense spending by $80 billion and non-defense expense by $63 billion. The budget for 2019 would see similar increases, and over the 10-year window, this Mitch McConnell-Chuck Schumer budget could result in $1.5 trillion more added to the national debt.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/02/can-stop-pretending-republicans-care-cutting-spending-now/



The GOP is totally in charge of government. Do not even put Chuck Schumer in this. They are just using Schumer as cover.

[democratisphere]

1. redumbliCONs are on their way to wrecking the economy again.

What the GOP says is the opposite of what they actually do aka lying.

[Guilded Lilly]

2. Republicans have been working for decades to advance their personal gains

and counting on the dumbing down of their public, every day members to brainlessly accept the Republican mythology of giving a damn about someone other than themselves or their sugar daddy donors.

[doc03]

3. They never did unless there was a Democrat in the Whitehouse. nt