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title: ""It shocked the nation and spawned an entire political movement that…"
date: 2019-11-20
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# "It shocked the nation and spawned an entire political movement that…

*November 20, 2019 · Facebook*

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[https://www.conservativereview.com/news/spending-first-2-5-years-trump-admin-13-higher-period-obama/](https://www.conservativereview.com/news/spending-first-2-5-years-trump-admin-13-higher-period-obama/){target="_blank"}
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\"It shocked the nation and spawned an entire political movement that led to a shift in the political balance. Spending during Obama's first few years in office was at a level never seen previously in our nation's history except during the height of WWII. It provoked the Tea Part counter-movement, as "STOP SPENDING" bumper stickers propped up across the nation. Fast-forward eight years later, and under Trump and Republicans, spending is now even higher, with a much healthier economy and job market.\
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During the first 33 full months of the Trump administration -- from February 2017 through October 2019 -- the federal government has spent roughly \$11.762 trillion, according to tabulations of monthly statements from the Treasury Department. If you flash back to the equivalent 33-month period during the beginning of Obama's first term -- from February 2009 through October 2011 -- spending was approximately \$10.3 trillion. That was the period of all the bank bailouts and the stimulus. That was the period where we saw the expansion of welfare and unemployment benefits. Yet, today, outlays are 13.2 percent higher than the infamous spending binge.\
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To be fair, if you factor in inflation, the percentage increase is not nearly as dramatic. Using OMB tables expressing the spending figures in constant 2012 numbers, according to my rough calculation, Obama's tab for the first 33 months would be \$10.385 trillion and Trump's at \$10.722. That would be only a 3.2 percent increase. However, a Republican presidency increasing spending in any way over the catastrophic levels of Obama is indefensible and demonstrates why we will never "conserve" anything under the Republican Party and the political system of the one-way ratchet.\"
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