Notable Quotable

A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.

 

- Everett Dirksen
 

Once upon a time Republicans were the guardians of fiscal restraint – or at least they paid lip service to such.  In Trump World Republicans can now lay claim to the largest budget deficit in a half-dozen years with billions upon billions of dollars of interest payments that will take generations to pay-off.  If at all.  It rather makes the era of Obama look like an exercise in financial self-discipline. 

That light at the end of the tunnel is a trillion-plus deficit in the next fiscal year. 

A world record – and a gift of conservative government.