Since the GOP has abandoned fiscal responsiblity, will the Dems pick up the issue??

[Bill]

About a year ago, President Trump pledged to eliminate the national debt "over a period of eight years." But for the first time in history, the national debt surpassed $21 trillion this week, according to the U.S. Treasury.

The landmark comes shortly after Congress passed, and Mr. Trump signed, a suspension on the federal debt limit last month, allowing the government to borrow an unlimited amount of money until March 1, 2019.

When Mr. Trump took office on Jan. 20, 2017, the national debt was $19.9 trillion, according to U.S. Treasury data. Since then, the GOP-led Congress has passed a $1.5 trillion tax cut bill and a two-year spending deal which, together, are expected to drive the deficit and debt further upward. The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget estimates annual deficits could top $2.1 trillion per year in the next decade, which would send the national debt soaring even higher.

Is fiscal conservatism dead?

Republicans railed against the national debt level under the Obama administration, when it jumped from $10.6 trillion to $19.9 trillion, nearly doubling, but few have been as outspoken about the situation with Republicans controlling Capitol Hill and the White House. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, held up the spending bill last month on the Senate floor, blistering Republicans for doing exactly what they had criticized the Obama administration for doing.

"I ran for office because I was critical of President Obama's trillion-dollar deficits," Paul said at the time. "Now we have Republicans hand-in-hand with Democrats offering us trillion-dollar deficits."

Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tennessee, called the national debt the "greatest threat to our nation" when it exceeded $20 trillion for the first time in September.

Greatest threat to our nation is our inability to get our fiscal house in order. My statement on the national debt: https://t.co/1lfyQ2jH5z. https://t.co/IJB4JE9YGz
— Senator Bob Corker (@SenBobCorker) September 12, 2017

But the ever-increasing national debt isn't a frequent topic for Mr. Trump, and when it does come up, he doesn't seem too concerned. He's said he's open to eliminating the debt ceiling entirely.

[PostmodernProphet]

lol.....the demmycrats think we aren't spending enough........

[Mason Michaels]

lol.....the demmycrats think we aren't spending enough........

Build the Wall

[Nordberg]

The Dems always deal with the debt. It is the Repubs plan to increase it. They do it every time. Piling up the debt to kill all social programs has been the long term plan. When Bush was pushed to do a second tax cut and jack up the debt, Cheney assured him"Reagan proved the debt does not matter" The Kochs just made a statement saying the same thing. Reds, that is who you are.

[bhaktajan]

This OP is to commemorate today's date as the day that:

Senate rejects Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal in 57-0 vote blasted as a ‘sham’ by Dems
By Bob Fredericks March 26, 2019

The Green New Deal failed to pass a procedural vote in the Senate Tuesday, with Democrats slamming the GOP motion as a “sham” and with two exceptions voting “present” in protest.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell put the ambitious plan to create jobs and improve the environment to a vote to force Democrats to take a public stand on the measure and try to divide the party’s moderates and progressives.

The final vote was 57 against and no one for the plan, with 43 Democrats voting present.

Red State Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona voted no.

”I could not be more glad that the American people will have the opportunity to learn precisely where each one of their senators stand on the ‘Green New Deal’: a radical, top-down, socialist makeover of the entire US economy,” McConnell tweeted.

Democrats, including New York’s Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, called the vote a political stunt.

“The GOP’s whole game of wasting votes in Congress to target others ‘on the record’, for leg they have no intent to pass, is a disgrace. Stop wasting the American peoples’ time + learn to govern. Our jobs aren’t for campaigning, & that’s exactly what these bluff-votes are for,” the freshman lawmaker clapped back on Twitter this week.
https://nypost.com/2019/03/26/senate...-sham-by-dems/

Ocasio-Cortez slams Republicans as ‘climate delayers’ after Green New Deal defeat