claim: says barack obama promised to halve the deficit in his first term.
author: matt mackowiak
evidence_1: oct 21, 2012 ... says barack obama "said when he was running for office four years ago that he  would halve the annual deficit by the end of his first term.
evidence_2: feb 21, 2009 ... president obama will announce he plans to halve the budget by the end ... in half  by the end of his first term, a senior administration official said saturday. ... for  months: contrary to his campaign promise, obama will allow the ...
evidence_3: mar 8, 2012 ... lenny curry, the head of the republican party of florida, said president barack  obama is going to have a hard time winning florida, citing gas ...
evidence_4: oct 16, 2018 ... on the campaign trail, trump first proposed a $10 trillion tax cut, ... they  relentlessly attacked president barack obama for increasing deficits and debt. ...  years when the economy is slowing down," said gary cohn, then director of the ...  had promised — a pledge politi-fact labeled "lie of the year" in 2013.
evidence_5: aug 16, 2012 ... first off, it should be no secret obama did, in fact, promise to cut the ... the  promise in 2009 to slash the deficit in half by the time his first term ...