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turbinetree

(24,720 posts)
Thu Feb 20, 2020, 02:46 PM Feb 2020

Mulvaney Admits GOP Doesn't Care About Bloated Deficit Under Millionaire-Friendly Trump

By Cristina Cabrera
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February 20, 2020 9:17 a.m.

Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney said the quiet part out loud on Wednesday night.


Mulvaney reportedly admitted during a speech at an Oxford Union event in Britain that today’s Republican Party doesn’t honestly care about curtailing the now-staggering deficit when it comes to their preferred policies, according to an audio tape obtained by the Washington Post.

“My party is very interested in deficits when there is a Democrat in the White House,” the acting chief of staff said. “The worst thing in the whole world is deficits when Barack Obama was the President.”

“Then Donald Trump became president, and we’re a lot less interested as a party,” he continued.

President Donald Trump’s GOP-approved tax cuts in 2017, which primarily benefited the wealthy, caused the deficit to skyrocket to over 1 trillion dollars by 2020. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and other administration officials insisted back then (and still insist now) that the cuts will “pay for themselves,” but even one of the GOP congresspeople who crafted the tax bill, Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX), admitted in July last year that they might not.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/mulvaney-admits-gop-doesnt-care-about-bloated-deficit-under-millionaire-friendly-trump

But you can go around about quid pro quo and say get over it, and then when it comes to seniors that paid through there hard work for medicare and social security............................you don't give shit about bloated deficit's.................fuck you...........in 2000 the deficit was paid off, and we had surplus............................fuck you again and your fascists party ...........................

November 3, 2020 cannot get her fast enough.......................or unless we go into the streets first..................

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Mulvaney Admits GOP Doesn't Care About Bloated Deficit Under Millionaire-Friendly Trump (Original Post) turbinetree Feb 2020 OP
Time for the republican party I_UndergroundPanther Feb 2020 #1
Ok, we win the prez, house and senate... Can we revoke tRumps gift to the rich?? mitch96 Feb 2020 #2
Satire? Control-Z Feb 2020 #3
Yepper spot on.................... turbinetree Feb 2020 #6
Fortunately for the GOP gratuitous Feb 2020 #4
The king gets what he wants budkin Feb 2020 #5
He's setting the table for Trump to call for cuts to SS and Medicare. kentuck Feb 2020 #7

mitch96

(13,924 posts)
2. Ok, we win the prez, house and senate... Can we revoke tRumps gift to the rich??
Thu Feb 20, 2020, 03:48 PM
Feb 2020

Maybe even tax them a little more????
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Control-Z

(15,682 posts)
3. Satire?
Thu Feb 20, 2020, 04:03 PM
Feb 2020
“My party is very interested in deficits when there is a Democrat in the White House,” the acting chief of staff said. “The worst thing in the whole world is deficits when Barack Obama was the President.”


My Gawd, were fucked.

turbinetree

(24,720 posts)
6. Yepper spot on....................
Thu Feb 20, 2020, 04:40 PM
Feb 2020

November 3, 2020 cannot get here fast enough.....................or unless we go into the streets first..................

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
4. Fortunately for the GOP
Thu Feb 20, 2020, 04:11 PM
Feb 2020

Our media overlords don't remember anything about this sort of nonsense. By March or April next year, the media will be providing oodles of air time and column inches to Republican whining about the deficit and the debt and we just gotta cut Social Security because those greedy geezers are just such a drain on the Treasury. None of them will have any memory at all of Mulvaney or Cheney or any other Republican gloating about running up the deficit to hamstring Democratic proposals: "Medicare for all? How you gonna pay for that?" Like we aren't already wasting billions of dollars on the current busted health care system, and nobody ever asks how we're going to pay for the ongoing occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. Military adventurism is free, but taking care of our own citizens is too expensive.

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