claim: "the estimated savings of this (debt ceiling) deal only pay for half of the cost of extending all of the bush-era tax cuts for another decade."
author: bobby scott
evidence_1: "the estimated savings of this (debt ceiling) deal only pay for half of the cost of  extending all of the bush-era tax cuts for another decade." — politifact virginia  on ...
evidence_2: may 10, 2011 ... if not for the bush tax cuts, the deficit-financed wars in iraq and ... the debt for the  coming decade by letting all of the bush tax cuts expire on ... in 2008-2010 — the  stimulus bill and other recovery measures and the ... [7] by 2019, we estimate that  these two policies will account for almost half — nearly $10 ...
evidence_3: the phrase bush tax cuts refers to changes to the united states tax code passed  originally ... the cbo estimated in january 2009 that extending the bush tax cuts  at all ... and senate majority leader bill frist that these tax cuts effectively "paid  for ... tax revenue plus another $0.66 trillion for interest and debt service costs.
evidence_4: mar 15, 2018 ... donald trump's massive tax cuts and congress's substantial spending ... “our  economy is now booming and with all i am doing, will only get better … .... in a  decade, federal debt will reach an overwhelming $33 trillion, the ... deal to raise  taxes and shrink deficits under the first president bush in 1990.
evidence_5: mar 5, 2012 ... these interest cost estimates assume congress extends several current policies,  such as the bush-era tax cuts. ... uncle sam will shell out more than $5 trillion in  interest payments over the next decade, ... to half of social security spending;;  close to what is spent on all of ... mortgage & savings center.