Biden touts falling deficits while Congress prepares more spending

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For all of President Joe Biden’s boasting about the deficit reduction that has occurred on his watch, his administration and its allies in Congress are pushing dramatic increases in government spending, even as inflation continues to climb.

“We’re on track to cut the federal deficit by another — another — $1.5 trillion by the end of this fiscal year, the biggest decline in a single year ever in American history,” Biden bragged from the White House last month.

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