claim: "the republicans have never done anything really to balance the budget."
author: steve cohen
evidence_1: oct 8, 1998 ... skeptics said it could not be done in seven years. ... the federal budget has not  been balanced by any republican ... a budget with no deficit, but that funds the  biggest government ever? ... who really balanced the budget
evidence_2: by w. gardner selby on wednesday, january 25th, 2012 at 3:25 p.m. ... that the " republicans have never done anything really to balance the budget." ... and the  balanced budget act of 1997 cleared the republican congress before it was ...
evidence_3: sep 24, 2018 ... i've long believed that the republican party was a collective ... this outlook and  believe the republican party actually does these things. ... the gop touts these  principles but, upon closer examination, they have never done any of this. ... that  a republican congress helped clinton balance the budget and ...
evidence_4: oct 8, 2017 ... gop-proposed-and-supported budget policies could easily result in a more-or- less permanent ... actually, it's not at all clear this is anything new. ... the  republican party "no longer worship(s) at the shrine the balanced budget." ...  that will very likely become more than $2 trillion when the final version of the ...
evidence_5: jan 31, 2018 ... shaming the other guy for doing something, and then doing it ... and while  president trump has never been much of a budget hawk, he did ... on the debt,  the deficit, fiscal stability, or balanced budgets in 2017, ... “voters, frankly, after  these huge deficits, are saying, 'well, how much do deficits really matter?'