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Today in Capital Matters: Deficits

Jack Salmon writes that Biden’s claims to fiscal responsibility don’t hold up:

The Congressional Budget Office projected combined deficit spending for financial years (FY) 2021 and 2022 to be around $3.3 trillion. Actual budget deficits during this period are already over $3.7 trillion, and FY 2022 isn’t over yet. In other words, the Biden administration exceeded the baseline estimates by more than $400 billion.

The reality of the nation’s fiscal condition discredits Biden’s deficit-reduction boast. Deficits are trillions of dollars larger due to enacted legislation and executive actions of the Biden administration.

Read the whole thing here.

Dominic Pino is the Thomas L. Rhodes Fellow at National Review Institute.
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