Guess you haven't heard the latest:
GOP and Trump put deficit on back burner
Giant infrastructure plan, major tax cut on the agenda — and so is a huge increase in the debt.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/1...31372?cmpid=sf
A serious case of fiscal amnesia may soon be sweeping the GOP.
For eight years, Republicans hammered President Barack Obama for exploding the national debt. But now a GOP-led spending spree is coming, with Donald Trump riding to the White House on trillion-dollar promises and a Republican Congress that looks likely to do his bidding. It’s a potential echo of the last time Republicans ran Washington, when then-Vice President Dick Cheney memorably remarked, “Deficits don’t matter.”