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With deficit falling, Biden highlights fiscal responsibility
The Associated Press ^ | May 4, 2022 | By JOSH BOAK and FATIMA HUSSEIN

Posted on 05/04/2022 6:44:14 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden plans to highlight deficit reduction in remarks Wednesday at the White House, noting that the government will pay down the national debt this quarter for the first time in six years.

The Democratic president has placed renewed emphasis on deficit reduction … the burst of $1.9 trillion in coronavirus relief approved in 2021 has already paid off in the form of faster growth that now makes it easier to stabilize government finances.

It is unclear if greater fiscal responsibility can deliver politically for Biden as Democrats try to defend control of Congress. His two most recent Democratic predecessors, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, also cut budget deficits, only to leave office and see their Republican successors use the savings on tax cuts.

Still, Biden hopes to draw a sharp contrast with former President Donald Trump, whom he beat in 2020. Trump, among a multitude of promises, pledged to lower the national debt yet failed to do so during any financial quarter of his presidency. Biden has repeatedly taken aim at that broken promise.

When unveiling his budget plan in March, Biden said that after his Republican predecessor’s “fiscal mismanagement” his administration is “reducing the Trump deficits and returning our fiscal house to order.”

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: brandon; democrats; election2022; fatimahussein; itistolaugh; joshboak; journalism; media; press
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1 posted on 05/04/2022 6:44:14 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The deficit is falling? ROTFLMAO. Somebody been hittin’ da happy smoke again.


2 posted on 05/04/2022 6:45:29 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Don't blame me, I voted for President Trump. Let's Go Brandon! FJB!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Babylon Bee?


3 posted on 05/04/2022 6:46:32 AM PDT by BenLurkin ((The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

THEY ARE INFLATING THEIR WAY OUT OF DEBT.

IT HAS HAPPENED MANY TIMES BEFORE.......................


4 posted on 05/04/2022 6:46:36 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

That’s what Obama told him to say...stupid assed cuck.


5 posted on 05/04/2022 6:47:53 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
So from the trillions to be spent on Build Back Better to fiscal responsibility. Like Barbarino, I am so confused.
6 posted on 05/04/2022 6:48:10 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; All

U.S. Trade Deficit Soars to New Record High

https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2022/03/08/u-s-trade-deficit-soars-to-new-record-high/

he U.S. trade deficit soared to a new record high in January as the U.S. imported more oil and autos and inflation pushed up the price of goods while exports declined.

The trade deficit climbed 9.4 percent in January to $89.7 billion, breaking the $81.9 billion record set just a month earlier.


7 posted on 05/04/2022 6:49:08 AM PDT by qaz123
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To: FlingWingFlyer

If you inflate the money, the debt becomes payable with worthless scrip.

Imagine you have a mortgage of $300K.

Then inflation makes that $300K worth as much as $30K is today.

You pay off your mortgage with inflated dollars, and voila! No more debt!.................


8 posted on 05/04/2022 6:49:21 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

It may be rising at a slower rate. In rat logic that means falling. Of course since we are entering a recessionary decline in growth with continuing high inflation the crowing will fall on deaf ears for the most part. The audience will still be looking at escalating prices for essential food and energy, and finding no comfort in rat abstractions.


9 posted on 05/04/2022 6:56:08 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

... the burst of $1.9 trillion in coronavirus relief approved in 2021 has already paid off in the form of faster growth that now makes it easier to stabilize government finances.

Spending money saves money. Riiiight.


11 posted on 05/04/2022 6:57:31 AM PDT by Flick Lives (The CDC. Brought to you by Pfizer)
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To: ping jockey

THANKS TO MY PRESIDENT TRUMP, I was able to pay off my 30 year mortgage in 16 years and I am forever grateful...........


12 posted on 05/04/2022 7:00:13 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

the criminal liberal media have received their DNC talking points:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4060261/posts


13 posted on 05/04/2022 7:02:26 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: qaz123

I read today the deficit was over $100 million in March


14 posted on 05/04/2022 7:03:19 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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U.S. trade deficit jumps 22% and tops $100 billion for the first time ever

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/u-s-trade-deficit-jumps-22-and-tops-100-billion-for-the-first-time-ever-11651667827

And here’s how the criminals at Yahoo reported the story

Robust imports push U.S. trade deficit to record high in March

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/robust-imports-push-u-trade-130732618.html


15 posted on 05/04/2022 7:05:20 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: God luvs America

No telling with the way they lie about everything.

But, by their own admission and data they say that the deficit is growing and then the AP does an article that it’s shrinking.

Idiots.

And complacency and busy lives have allowed people of this ilk to take over so many aspects of our lives. Sad.


16 posted on 05/04/2022 7:07:05 AM PDT by qaz123
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To: God luvs America

So, Yahoo talks about the deficit increasing. AP says it’s decreasing.

They give you all the information needed to herd them into one area of the world, wall it off and let them live their miserable, utopian, liberal, hipster, socialist lives.


17 posted on 05/04/2022 7:08:32 AM PDT by qaz123
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The US Mint’s printing presses must be wearing out by now.


18 posted on 05/04/2022 7:13:06 AM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I have done accounting for the past 65 years.

I ain’t buying this BS story-—NOT ONE WORD.


20 posted on 05/04/2022 7:15:21 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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