re: #195 engineer dog

that year would have been 1995. the budget was not balanced that year

it did approach balance in 2000, but that was because of a combination of clinton’s tax increases and the robust economy

to show examples of serious spending control on the part of republicans, it would be good to hear about specific and significant cuts

Republicans controlled both houses of congress from 1995 through the remainder of Clinton’s presidency. The budget must come from the House of Representatives - which was controlled by Republicans then. They reduced YoY spending increases from 10% to 7.2%. The media/Democrat Party continually called this 7.2% spending INCREASE a cut.

BTW, Clinton vetoed the balanced budget twice before he was advised that his 1996 re-election chances were slipping away if he insisted on NOT balancing the budget. He did and, as you’ve illustrated above, Republicans got zero credit for writing the legislation.