Biden’s unwarranted bragging about reducing the budget deficit

President Biden, in an interview with 60 Minutes, aired Sept. 18

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Do Americans still care about budget deficits?

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President Biden appears to believe so, since he’s constantly crowing about his record of deficit reduction.

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Just in the week before the 60 Minutes interview, the president mentioned having reduced the budget deficit by $350 billion six times,

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sometimes saying he wants to counter accusations that he’s running up the federal tab.

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“There is plenty of deficit reduction to pay for the programs — cumulative deficit reduction — to pay for the programs many times over.”

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