The National Debt, Deficit Spending and Total Federal Spending: The Real Facts and Numbers Part II.

 Ever since the Reagan era, he and his party claimed that democratic administrations were the big spenders in Washington.  The media caved to that rhetoric of lies and misinformation and ran with the false story.  The media is still today trying to push that false narrative with the Trump administration.  

The below numbers tell the story of federal spending during the 44 year period of those 7 Presidents who served.  It indicates what party were the big spenders with the greatest percentage increase in federal spending.   

In Reagan's 8 fiscal years, federal spending increased  75%

In Bush 43  8 fiscal years, federal spending increased  61%

In Trump's 4 fiscal years, federal spending increased  43%

In Bush 41 4 fiscal years, federal spending increased  28%

In Obama's 8 fiscal years, federal spending increased 25%

In Clinton's 8 fiscal  years, federal spending increased 24%

In Biden's 4 fiscal years, federal spending increased  19%

In addition to the above numbers, the Obama administration reduced year over year federal spending 3 times in fiscal years 2020,2012 and 2913.  President Biden's administration did the same thing twice in fiscal years 2022 and 2023.  The last GOP administration that reduced year over year federal spending was Eisenhower in 1955.

The numbers tell the real story and are taken from the official federal government historical records as published by the Office of Management and Budget which list the government's revenue, expense and deficits.  The government uses the term outlays instead of the word expense.  It describes the same thing but the word expense is used when politicians and the media sources use the word.  

All the numbers tell us that the republican party are not conservative when it comes to fiscal matters and dealing with the issues of deficit spending, increases in the national debt and federal spending.  The numbers also tell us, no matter the fiscal responsibility concern, the democratic party does a better job of governing America.

This commentary written by Joe Lorio