Biden contrasts his deficit spending record with Trump’s ‘fiscal mismanagement’

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President Joe Biden heaped blame on former President Donald Trump for raising U.S. spending levels and pushing “fiscal responsibility” to the wayside as Biden touted his own budget proposal.

Biden, delivering remarks Monday on his $5.8 trillion budget request for fiscal year 2023, opened by noting that the “previous administration, as you all know, ran up record budget deficits.”

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