claim: says barack obama "promised he would cut the deficit in half" but didn’t.
author: lenny curry
evidence_1: feb 14, 2012 ... obama was lobbed the question by a sympathetic reporter who said obama is ...  that increases the deficit because less tax revenues come in and it ... obama on  failed promise to cut deficit in half: "recession turned out to ... cast, but a lot  of us didn't understand at that point how bad it was going to get.
evidence_2: aug 16, 2012 ... obama is then heard saying, "i will be held . ... the promise obama made was  from a white house meeting called the "fiscal responsibility summit" on feb. 23 , 2009. "today i'm pledging to cut the deficit we inherited by half by the end of ...  obama's "you didn't build that" quote out of context, but democrats ...
evidence_3: oct 4, 2012 ... romney proposes to offset his rate cuts and promises he won't add to the deficit.  ... but didn't say how he could possibly accomplish that without also increasing  the deficit. ... obama again said he'd raise taxes on upper-income persons only to  the .... romney: the president said he'd cut the deficit in half.
evidence_4: oct 21, 2012 ... says barack obama "said when he was running for office four years ago ... 23,  2009, president barack obama promised to cut the deficit in half by the ... it will  require us to make difficult decisions and face challenges we've long neglected.  ... obama added, "so, the die had been cast, but a lot of us didn't ...
evidence_5: feb 12, 2018 ... and given how sharply the just-passed tax cuts will reduce revenue ... avoiding  $400 billion annual deficits was just one of several promises trump ... country  didn't “balance up” its budget soon, “we're not going to have a nation anymore ...  trump said he would not only eliminate annual deficits, but actually ...