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Died. children are being separated from their families. some of them permanently, and it s all a policy that the president put in place based on no good reason whatsoever. illegal border crossings are dropping. unemployment in this country is at a historic low. this is totally and utterly unnecessary, the entire policy, and you just heard from congressman meadows, all of this is built on lies. there was there was a caravan crisis before the election. week after the election, crickets. we don t hear about it anymore. all of a sudden we re bringing it back out again. we re not talking about the real issues. you know, russia s hypersonic missiles, trillion dollar deficits. we re talking about the humanitarian cries of the government s own making. not entirely. look, i i tend to agree with you that a lot of this has been ginned up for political reasons, no question. the caravan was a fraud. ....
What about the spending package, you said you mentioned the two bills tell us about spending and whether or not there are any plans in place to cut spending given the trillion dollar deficits that we face in the coming years and $21 trillion in debt. well first you want to look at what happened under the eight years of republicans being in the majority. it s the history of government to always increase spending every year. when you look at what we will be spending discretionary that part that congress has control over, we will be $13 billion less than we were when we took over back in 2011, the last time nancy pelosi was speaker. if you look at those eight years and you look at what congressional budget office said we would be spending today, having eight years of republican s overall total spending we have saved $4.3 trillion by having republicans in control. now, we ve got a lot further to go. we ve got the economy growing at a pace no one thought we could. ....
That was far from the best economy ever, america s gdp growth averaged more than 4.5% during the 1960s. while the stock market suffered steep losses in october, trump can still point to a 27% increase in the s&p 500 over his term in office. well, stock market rose 35% in the first two years of obama s term. of course, main street matters a lot more than wall street when we judge the american economy and donald trump can point with justified pride to rising real wages. his tariffs and trade wars, they may be translating to rising consumer costs and job losses soon. there are also storm clouds brewing in the budget deficit which has rised 17% in the last year alone. projections show trillion dollar deficits as early as next year. donald trump should crow about presiding over a strong economy but it is clearly not the best economy in the history of the country. and that s your reality check. as good as it is, though, he ....
Of those functions should be taking care of folks after a hurricane in puerto rico. i know there are conservatives who think we should be fiscally prudent. well, there s nothing fiscally responsible about trillion dollar deficits. i know there are sincere conservatives who are compassionate and must think there s nothing compassionate about ripping immigrant children from the arms of mothers at the border. i m assuming that they recognize that a president doesn t get to decide on his own who s an american citizen and who s not. that s not how the constitution of the united states works. that s not how the bill of ....
Hurricane in puerto rico. i know there s conservatives that think we should be fiscally prudent but there s nothing fiscally responsible about trillion dollar deficits. there s fear, conservatives who are compassionate must think there s nothing compassionate about ripping innocent change from the arms of mothers. i m assuming that they recognize that a president doesn t get to decide who is an american citizen and who is not. that s not how the constitution of the united states works. that s not how the bill of rights works. that s not how our democracy ....