[Hoot Gibson]

The Republican Party has been very disingenuous though about deficit spending. I know Democrats are usually accused of running up massive budgets but according to a lot of the reports I’ve seen recently Trump has substantially increased the deficit over the last few years. At least Democrats have been honest about wanting more federal spending. Republicans have been campaigning on cutting spending for years but once they get to Washington they vote for massive spending bills. The vast majority of that has been under Mitch’s leadership.

You are absolutely correct about federal spending under recent Republican administrations and Congresses. However, virtually every fiscal conservative who advocates cutting budget deficits and works toward that goal is a Republican. The problem is that those individuals are greatly outnumbered by big spenders like McConnell.