Pete Buttigieg, hitting Bernie Sanders, pays lip service to fiscal responsibility

One of the major 2020 Democrats is actually talking about reducing the federal budget deficit and the threat posed by the $23 trillion national debt. It sounds too good to be true because it is.

“Moderate” Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg is just using fiscal responsibility as a talking point against his top rival, Bernie Sanders, ahead of Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary. Mayor Pete’s actual policy agenda belies his professed concern for fiscal responsibility. Maybe lip service is better than nothing — or maybe not.