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Fiscal conservative John Boehner recently observed of Congressional Republicans,
"None of these guys said anything when the Trump administration added $1 trillion to the federal budget deficit
by the end of 2019 - before a single dime was spent on COVID-19 relief!"
"They were rubber stamps for it in Congress. Many of them who raised huge stinks about [the Troubled Asset Relief Program] were only too happy to let Trump bail out farmers hurt by his trade war with China," he added, referring to the $700 billion measure that Congress passed in October of 2008 to prop up the nation's financial system.
The national debt stood at $19.9 trillion when Trump took office in 2017 and hit $28 trillion last month.
In the wake of the sordid, national spectacle of Trump goons attacking Congress, Republicans may have hoped to return to normalcy.Alas, their core political philosophy had already been been savaged.
Mitch McConnell who aided and abetted the Former Guy's profligate ways recently mewled,
"It's one thing to run up the national debt when you have a hundred-year pandemic
but just to keep routinely adding trillions of dollars to the national debt
I think is ill-advised for the future of the country."
Turtle's token, limp-wristed arm wrestling with the Administration reflects consciousness of the hypocrisy of opposing the popular President's popular agenda after having bent over meekly with nary a squeal at the Former Guy's prodigal apostasy.
Last month circulated a Navigator Research poll showing that 59 percent of Americans support Biden's infrastructure agenda and that 83 percent support his desire to expand access to childcare and investments in clean energy infrastructure, which are not highlighted in the alternative GOP proposal.
A Politico/Morning Consult poll from this month showed strong support among Republicans, Democrats and independents for Biden's infrastructure spending priorities, and 65 percent of voters were on board with raising the corporate tax rate to help pay for them. The survey even found that 42 percent of Republicans favored raising taxes on corporations.
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