Biden deficit-slasher messaging undercut by ballooning national debt

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For most of his time in the White House, President Joe Biden has bragged about a pandemic-era drop in the national deficit that occurred on his watch.

But the president’s priorities are undercutting that messaging following a new score from the government’s nonpartisan budget forecaster that finds everything from his program to cancel student loans to bipartisan aid to Ukraine and Israel adding to this year’s estimated deficit.

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