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Politics : A Real American President: Donald Trump -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DMaA who wrote (146721)	7/17/2019 10:33:13 PM
From: Smiling Bob	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 455131

No politician/Congress will seriously cut spending and risk losing votes Nobody votes for austerity/less government services Much easier to print more money 17 months later and we're over 22 trillion https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-was-trumps-craziest-promise-yet-2018-02-09 Congress controls the purse strings, and in the eight years since Republicans won control of the House, the national debt has skyrocketed from $13.5 trillion at the beginning of fiscal year 2011 to $20.4 trillion today.