Mulvaney says Republicans Hypocritical on Deficits

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Mulvaney says Republicans Hypocritical on Deficits

February 19, 2020 at 11:30 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 30 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2020/02/19/mulvaney-says-republicans-hypocritical-on-deficits/

“Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said Wednesday night that the Republican Party is hypocritical when it comes to deficits,” according to audio of an overseas speech obtained by the Washington Post.

Said Mulvaney: “My party is very interested in deficits when there is a Democrat in the White House. 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,”

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1. Looks like Republicans are hedging their bets and reactivating the 'deficits are terrible' mantra now that it looks like a Democratic President might win. And/or Trump is going to run as a deficit hawk and pound into voters heads that the US is about to go bankrupt and any Democratic nominee will be a dangerous spendthrift with any policy proposals.

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Mulvaney said he hoped the legacy of the administration would be that supply-side economics works and that it will be the “greatest interest on a non-scandalous basis” for historians.

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2. The good job market is because Boomers have been working for 50+ years and now they are all retiring, it is not supply side economics but the stable economy Obama left Trump and Demographics.

[Leghorn21]

1. Hunh?? Why would this sniveling scumbucket bring this up? At all?

Weird

Well, I hope he gets a mean-tweet, at least

Weird

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3. Because they must have got numbers in saying Trump can't win and they

need to prepare the soil for sabotaging any plans democrats talk about on the campaign trail. Trump will run as a deficit hawk. Against Bernie or Biden it does not matter. When they need the debt crisises they pull it out to stop people voting for Democrats.

[Tanuki]

6. They are getting ready to use the unbridled deficit they caused as an excuse

to gut Medicare and Social Security. It was the plan all along. Mulvaney is not breaking with the administration, he is merely playing a role in the latest Gaslight Theatre production.

[uponit7771]

11. +1,

[Hermit-The-Prog]

12. exactly! It's a big act to loot Social Security for the filthy rich.

[Laelth]

2. There's nothing new about this observation. n/t

-Laelth

[nilram]

4. Except that it's coming from a republican

who is part of the current administration.

[Laelth]

5. Admittedly, Republican honesty is a rare thing to behold.

We've seen more and more of that under the Trump administration. It must be really bad.

-Laelth

[progree]

7. He's already playing deficit hawk: Cutting federal worker pay raises from 2.5% to 1%, citing

'serious economic conditions' and his statutory authority to adjust pay because of "national emergency or serious economic conditions affecting the general welfare,"

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/10/politics/trump-federal-employee-pay-adjustments/index.html

[Lock him up.]

9. 'serious economic conditions' !!!

Then whattabout that repeated so-called Greatest Economy in History propaganda on his orange twitler boss and Faux Snooze??

It's either one or the other... but it sure can't be both, Russiablican con-men...

[Bradical79]

8. You don't say....

I get a bit tired of these Republicans going on TV and stating the stupidly obvious. Tens of millions of Americans have understood the Republicans are hypocritical on deficit spending for decades. It's been pointed out over and over.

[Wounded Bear]

10. Warming up for the next administration...

since Trump will probably lose, they are getting ready to start riding Dems about "sky rocketing" deficits.