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In this case, a picture may be worth a thousand million billion trillion quadrillion words:
The worst deficit under a Republican Congress was $400 billion in FY2004.
It’s also worth noting that the last budget produced by a Republican Congress spent $2.77 trillion (FY2007), and had a deficit of less than half of that peak. While Republican Congresses added almost $800 billion in annual spending to the budget in six years — an indefensible expansion — that pales in comparison to the $1.1 trillion added by Democratic Congresses in just
three years. Under those conditions, the massive budget deficits shown in the CBO’s graph are simply unavoidable, and the best of the next ten years is double the worst of the Republican Congress from 2001-7.
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