The budget deficit reflects the trillions of dollars in government spending during the COVID-19 pandemic offset by increasing revenue.

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The move to raise the country's debt limit was a national story. No one would know it from the name of the bill that made it possible.

'The reason we have to raise the debt limit is, in part, because of the reckless tax and spending policies' under Trump, Biden said.

President Joe Biden said he "can't" guarantee the US won't reach the debt ceiling due to Republicans "refusing to do their job."

President Joe Biden apparently thinks the American public is incapable of focusing on two subjects at the same time. Sound familiar?

Progressives warned an infrastructure bill cannot pass the House as long as Senate centrists remain noncommittal on the larger budget bill.

Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas told his conservative colleagues not to fall for the Democrats' tricks.

Uh, oh, the nation's credit card has been cut up. That's okay - Congress will just make another one. Boom! The spending resumes.

'I like my government small and as unintrusive as possible, so I am not happy about the current spending situation.'