claim: "forty cents of every dollar being spent by the federal government is being borrowed from my children."
author: marco rubio
evidence_1: dec 7, 2012 ... the federal government borrowed 46 cents of every dollar it has spent so far in  fiscal 2013, which began oct. 1, according to the latest data the ...
evidence_2: aug 30, 2012 ... a former state legislator from west miami elected to the u.s. senate in 2010,  rubio's star has ... repeated this statistic: "forty cents of every dollar being spent  by the federal government is being borrowed from my children.
evidence_3: the federal government does too many things that would be done better by ...  thought their government wasted about 40 cents of every tax dollar it spent.
evidence_4: oct 4, 2017 ... in fiscal year 2016, the federal government spent $3.9 trillion, ... the remaining  amount ($585 billion) was financed by borrowing. as the chart below shows,  three major areas of spending each make up about one-fifth of the budget: ...  spouses and children of retired workers, 6 million surviving children and ...
evidence_5: jul 29, 2014 ... snap has halved the number of children living in extreme poverty. ... but the  decline isn't one-to-one—you lose only about 30 cents for every extra net dollar  you earn. ... in 2013, out of every $100 the federal government spent, a little over  ... because the people getting benefits aren't just a random portion of ...