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Seems like a team effort... Budget Deficit By Year (billions) 2002 - $158 (R) 2003 - $378 (R) 2004 - $413 (R) 2005 - $318 (R) 2006 - $248 (R) 2007 - $16
by zeroonetwothree 4y ago
Seems like a team effort...
Budget Deficit By Year (billions)
2002 - $158 (R)
2003 - $378 (R)
2004 - $413 (R)
2005 - $318 (R)
2006 - $248 (R)
2007 - $161 (R)
2008 - $459 (R)
2009 - $1,413 (R)
2010 - $1,294 (D)
2011 - $1,300 (D)
2012 - $1,077 (D)
2013 - $680 (D)
2014 - $485 (D)
2015 - $442 (D)
2016 - $585 (D)
2017 - $665 (D)
2018 - $779 (R)
2019 - $984 (R)
2020 - $3,132 (R)
2021 - $2,772 (R)
2022 - $1,375 (D)
- silisili 4y agoCurious - why are these all 2 years off election years? I guess I'd understand being 1 year off, but 2 seemed odd to me.
- thegginthesky 4y agoExactly, but the goal of a two party system is that you can reliably blame the other party for any problems, even though in practice there's very little difference between both. It's a feature of the current system.