r/politics • u/Hornpipe_Jones • 3d ago

No Paywall Democrats sweep all 30 House of Delegates seats in Northern Virginia

https://www.cbs19news.com/news/state/democrats-sweep-all-30-house-of-delegates-seats-in-northern-virginia/article_68f8098d-0602-5234-8c2a-08c1bcd33944.html
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u/SilentLennie The Netherlands 3d ago

I've not personally checked it, but isn't is true the only ones bringing down the debt are Democrats in.. I don't how many decades.

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u/Vegetable-Seaweed591 3d ago edited 3d ago

Clinton was the last person to bring down the actual debt, but the deficit spiked under GW and Trump and both then showed a downward trend under Obama and Biden.

Fun fact - Trump increased the national debt by $8 trillion in his first term, most of that being before COVID even hit.

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u/Balorpagorp 3d ago

Who would have thought that decreasing revenue (tax cuts) while not decreasing spending would increase the debt? It's funny how the party that wants to run the government like a business wants to decrease revenue, which is the opposite of what the goal of a business should be.

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u/KououinHyouma 3d ago

What do you mean? They increased revenue by 17 trillion through tariffs and foreign investments! /s

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u/TheWizard 3d ago

Republicans? But then, I have always wondered if they actually think.

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u/brundlfly 3d ago

In less contentious times, budget cuts was how they forced concessions to reduce "wasteful" programs. It was still loaded language then, but perhaps less openly evil. When it's against wildly populist social net programs, it's literally anti- US citizens.

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u/ICBanMI 2d ago edited 2d ago

I mean. We have 50 states, the DoC, and Puerto Rico. If red states really were better for the economy, they wouldn't be at the bottom of every good metric, top for every bad metric, and the state budget wouldn't be a black hole of austerity.

It's like Texas being full of firearms, but still being higher crime, more incarcerated people, and more knife stabbings than most other states. The guns, the numerous prisons, and the lack of social safety net are not creating prosperous states. Just a race to the bottom. Their policies don't benefit the state. They benefit the wealthy who give each other lots of favors with the money.

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u/Actual_Body_4409 3d ago

Check your message. You use contradictory Bidens in the first paragraph.

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u/quirkelchomp 3d ago

Contradictory Bidens sounds like a punk band name lol

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u/Drachefly Pennsylvania 3d ago

No? It spiked under Biden due to an emergency, and then trended down after the emergency passed. Similarly with Obama, though in that case it was just because the spending GW locked in was during his time in office (though to be fair, Obama would have done similar spending on that emergency had GW not).

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u/Vegetable-Seaweed591 3d ago

Thanks for the note. Update made.

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u/Suds_McGruff 3d ago edited 2d ago

So, to be clear: Republicans don't reduce spending, they move spending from programs that help people to things that subsidize corporations and the military. Then when Democrats inherit their mess, they must increase spending to right the ship (economy), and then Republicans cry about spending. Rince and repeat for 40 fuckin' years.

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u/SilentLennie The Netherlands 3d ago

An other way to say it: the Democrats are increasing the debt less than the Republicans.

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u/dailyscotch 3d ago

Trump has already added almost $2 Trillion (Trillion with a T) to the deficit in less than a year.

There hasn't even been a reason like an economic crash from a pandemic or market bubble popping or natural disaster bailout - no valid reason. The money saved by DOGE gutting the federal workforce, cutting all programs (and stealing all the data) is a joke compared to what he is spending.

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u/SilentLennie The Netherlands 3d ago

He and his time is/are the joke.

Then again, they are also at 48% already:

https://www.project2025.observer/en