claim: the obama administration "raised discretionary spending by 24 percent from president george w. bush's last full-year budget and will run up more debt by october than bush did in eight years."
author: karl rove
evidence_1: the economic policy of the george w. bush administration was characterized by  significant income tax cuts in 2001 and 2003, the implementation of medicare  part d in 2003, increased military spending for two wars, a housing bubble that  contributed to the subprime mortgage crisis of 2007-2008, and the great  recession ...
evidence_2: dec 6, 2016 ... claim: the aca and other obama administration policies have led to too many  americans working part .... claim: the national debt has doubled under president  obama due to reckless spending. ... 15. related .... gdp growth has been faster  under barack obama than under george w. bush, 2.0 percent.
evidence_3: jun 4, 2012 ... in fact, spending for the first seven months of the current fiscal year is running  slightly below the same period last year, and below projections. since pictures  can convey information more efficiently than words, we'll sum up the official  spending figures in this chart. it also reflects our finding that obama ...
evidence_4: jun 28, 2010 ... some critics continue to assert that president george w. bush's policies bear  little responsibility for the deficits the nation faces over the coming decade — that,  instead, the new policies of president barack obama and the 111th congress  are to blame. most recently, a heritage foundation paper ...
evidence_5: may 24, 2012 ... what politifact must have missed is a very important data point: president obama  signed most of the spending attributed to president george w. bush's last year in  office, which was assigned wrongly to bush in nutting's piece. (heritage's emily  goff and alison fraser set the record straight on the foundry.).