WH projects $1 trillion deficit for 2019

Source: The Hill | July 15, 2019 | Niv Elis

The White House projects that the federal deficit will surpass $1 trillion this year, the only time in the nation’s history the deficit has exceeded that level, excluding the four-year period following the Great Recession.

“The 2019 deficit has been revised to a projected $1.0 trillion,” the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) wrote in its midyear review.

As a candidate, President Trump promised to wipe out not only the deficit but the entire federal debt, which has surpassed $22 trillion.

Republicans cast aside projections that their 2017 tax reform law would add $1.9 trillion to the deficit over a decade. Larry Kudlow, the top White House economic adviser, claimed just last week that the tax cuts were on track to pay for themselves.

Spending has also shot up as a result of bipartisan budget deals, in which Republicans sought massive increases in defense expenditures and Democrats sought equal increases on domestic priorities such as health care and education.

Leaders of the Democratic-controlled House and Republican-controlled Senate and the White House are again in discussions to increase spending ahead of fiscal 2020, which begins Oct. 1, and a looming deadline to raise the debt ceiling.

Budget hawks noted with dismay that the rising deficit was taking place at a time of strong economic growth, when economists say fiscal policy should be more restrained.

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    Of course, Trump, through his supporters, blames congress and everyone else, but the truth is, Trump has been more than willing to sign off on any congressional spending spree bill handed to him. No one in DC, Democrat or Republican (and that includes Trump) really cares about the debt and deficit. They might make promises to control spending, but they have no intention of doing so.

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