claim: we have cut "our deficits by almost three-quarters."
author: barack obama
evidence_1: jan 13, 2016 ... obama stretched the facts in his final sotu on jobs, deficits, health care, military  spending and carbon emissions. ... and he said he had cut the country's deficits  by “almost three-quarters.” but that's ..... deficit — he also boasted that “we've  done all this while cutting our deficits by almost three-quarters.
evidence_2: nearly 18 million people have gained health coverage as the affordable care act  has taken effect. and we have dramatically cut our deficits by almost three- quarters and set our nation on a more sustainable fiscal path. yet while it is  important to take stock of our progress, this budget is not about looking back at  the road we ...
evidence_3: jan 13, 2016 ... over his entire time in office, manufacturing jobs have gone down by 230,000.  and he said he had cut the country's deficits by “almost three-quarters.” but that's  measured from fiscal 2009, which included some increased spending by obama.  he repeated his now years-long claim of crediting the affordable ...
evidence_4: jan 12, 2016 ... debt: obama: "and we've done all this while cutting our deficits by almost three- quarters." in dollar terms, the deficit peaked at $1.4 trillion in 2009. in 2016, it's  expected to fall to $474 billion, a drop of about two-thirds. as a percentage of the  overall economy, though, the deficit has dropped from 9.8 percent ...
evidence_5: oct 19, 2016 ... as breitbart news noted when president obama claimed in january to have cut  the deficit by “almost three-quarters”: advertisement. this is pure fiction. obama  has doubled the national debt, and it's not because he cut the deficit. rather, he  spent staggering amounts of money in his first months in ...