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Clyburn: Biden ‘Increased a Lot of Spending’ but ‘Didn’t Run up the Debt’ — He Paid for Everything
Breitbart ^ | 05/31/2023 | IAN HANCHETT

Posted on 05/31/2023 11:02:31 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” House Assistant Minority Leader Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) claimed that while President Joe Biden “has increased a lot of spending” “We didn’t run up the debt” because they paid for things like the American Rescue Plan Act.

Clyburn said, “[Former President Donald Trump] made it very clear that if he were President, he would understand the sanctity of maintaining the good faith and credit of the United States of America. Now that he’s no longer President, he doesn’t care whether or not the country defaults. So, that’s the hypocrisy that’s in this. Look, when we were giving him what he needed to raise the debt limit, he was also increasing the debt, a $2-trillion tax cut that went straight to the debt, didn’t pay for it at all. And so, what we’re attempting to do now is raise this debt limit to accommodate all of those expenses that he ran up as President. And so, I don’t understand how my good friends on the other side of the aisle can keep a straight face, knowing full well that we are at the limit in large measure because of what happened for the four years of the Trump administration. If you look at what has been happening with this administration, this President has increased a lot of spending. We paid for it. We didn’t run up the debt. We paid for the Rescue Act. We paid for the infrastructure bill. These things — we believe in pay-go and we have been paying as we have gone along, and that’s what we’re trying to do now, raise the debt limit to accommodate those expenses that got run up when the — 45 was President.”

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: biden; clyburn; debt; spending
The gaslighting is amazing
1 posted on 05/31/2023 11:02:31 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Printing money out of thin air is not ‘paying for everything’...........


2 posted on 05/31/2023 11:04:25 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Huh? According to what accounting principles?


3 posted on 05/31/2023 11:07:07 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) My dog Sam eats purple flowers.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

such an alternative reality


4 posted on 05/31/2023 11:12:23 AM PDT by Jonny7797
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To: ChicagoConservative27

And of course the MSNBCNNBSWTF networks won’t spend a single second challenging the blatant lies of these evil bastards.


5 posted on 05/31/2023 11:12:39 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Well sure, print money and spend it, what could go wrong...


6 posted on 05/31/2023 11:13:03 AM PDT by Democrat = party of treason
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“Never go full retard”
Or let the door knob hit you in the Clyburn.


7 posted on 05/31/2023 11:14:32 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: ChicagoConservative27

How you can tell when a DemonRAT is lying: his lips are moving.


8 posted on 05/31/2023 11:17:28 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: ChicagoConservative27
There is no greater illustration of unbridled democracy's inherent threat to society's well-being than the likes of Clyburn.
9 posted on 05/31/2023 11:24:00 AM PDT by PerConPat ( A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.- Mencken)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

CLYBURN IS A DISGUSTING DEMOCRAT LIAR !


10 posted on 05/31/2023 11:27:24 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
The gaslighting is amazing

The gaslighting is universal. Some Republican PAC was running ads on Bannon’s War Room this morning. They declared a great Republican victory and every point they made was a big fat lie.

11 posted on 05/31/2023 11:29:23 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("How did you go bankrupt?s" Bill asked. "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly." )
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Anybody that does not mind lying and being lied to has already left the Democrat party.


12 posted on 05/31/2023 12:02:23 PM PDT by AndyTheBear
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To: ChicagoConservative27

And this is a prime example of what is wrong with black people in America, they don’t have the courage to believe the TRUTH. Clyburn is LYING HIS ASS OFF


13 posted on 05/31/2023 12:19:49 PM PDT by eyeamok
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14 posted on 05/31/2023 12:21:50 PM PDT by Bratch
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Stupid, lying, ahole.
Perfect representative for his folks.


15 posted on 05/31/2023 12:24:33 PM PDT by TexasM1A
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Where are the fact checkers?


16 posted on 05/31/2023 1:27:43 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: ChicagoConservative27

CLYBURN has dementia, also.


17 posted on 05/31/2023 1:47:47 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Hank Johnson said that if they printed enough money to make islands they might not capsize.


18 posted on 05/31/2023 2:55:05 PM PDT by cquiggy
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To: Ann Archy

He is incredibly incompetant. The only reason he is in Congress is that he is a black Demonrat.


19 posted on 05/31/2023 3:10:20 PM PDT by Machavelli (True God)
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