[Paladin2]

Trump never controlled Congress.

[DoodleDawg]

He had a veto. He didn’t use it hardly at all, certainly not on anything significant.

[Engedi]

On March 24, 2017, the U.S. State Department under President Donald Trump (R) issued a presidential permit approving the Keystone XL pipeline. Trump signed an executive order in January to expedite final approval of the pipeline within 60 days. In the executive order, Trump also invited TransCanada, the pipeline’s owner, to resubmit its application for a permit. On January 26, 2017, TransCanada resubmitted its application for approval.

In November 2017, the Nebraska Public Service Commission voted 3-2 to approve construction of a portion of the Keystone XL pipeline in Nebraska, though the commission rejected TransCanada’s preferred route for the pipeline.

On November 9, 2018, U.S. District Judge Brian M. Morris blocked the permit issued by the Trump administration. Morris ruled that a supplemental environmental review had to be completed before the construction could proceed.

On January 20, 2021, President Joe Biden signed an executive order which revoked the permit for the Keystone XL Pipeline.

[nathanbedford]

The truth is Trump never seriously undertook to cut federal spending, to defeat inflation he relied on growing the economy fast enough to close the deficit. That hope was probably always the product of political realities rather than economic realities, but at least it was a plan to deal with the deficit and by extension, inflation. Who can say that he was not wise to know that any politician who preached the realities of fiscal restraint rather than the Pollyanna-ish vision of endless federal bennies.

Whether he might've closed the gap we will never know because his fiscal and monetary approach was interrupted by Covid.

Even judging Trump most negatively, he was far from consigning the country to runaway inflation, deflation and the terrible combination now confronting us as caused by Joe Biden, stagflation.

The numbers have now gone so far out of control that there is no avoiding the pain. The most we can hope for is the power of choice of which kind of pain we will endure as we hopefully avoid another kind: inflation or depression; subsidies, price controls or high taxes;high interest rates or high taxes; inflation or jobs. Every choice means another kind of pain.

In one year Joe Biden and his leftists have left-us in this state.

[napscoordinator]

He sorta did the first two years.

[lone star annie]

High fuel prices almost always causes inflation and along with government spending you have a true perfect storm.

[BiteYourSelf]

Exactly.🙄