One only needs look at any administration after 1980. https://www.thebalancemoney.com/us-deficit-by-year-3306306#toc-budget-deficit-by-year-since-1929 https://

One only needs look at any administration after 1980. https://www.thebalancemoney.com/us-deficit-by-year-3306306#toc-budget-deficit-by-year-since-1929 https://www.thebalancemoney.com/us-deficit-by-year-3306306#t... The only presidential administration that produced a non-deficit budget was Bill Clinton's second term (~97-00). Probably because Ross Perot mostly self-funded a third party campaign centered around the national debt and had received 8% of the vote (and 19% in the previous election).