evidence: The only place, sadly, where there’s seemingly bipartisanship would be on the dereliction on budget. Most avoid the tough decisions that have taken us to annual trillion dollar deficits, which now baseline at 1.5 trillion. We were 18 trillion in debt when I got here and are now at 30 trillion. Biden put a budget out that no one, including Republicans, even seemed to shrug their shoulders over. That’s the thing that’s most bothersome to me, being from a place like Indiana, which runs a much different operation with a rainy day fund, cash reserves, budget, regular order process, and a good product each year that doesn’t have to borrow money to finance what you’re spending. [...] For instance, in February of this year—four months after we should’ve had the budget done—we finally agreed behind closed doors to increase spending for both defense and discretionary domestic by 6.2%. That was terrible—the economy was so distorted that it was hard to figure out what was real growth and what wasn’t. That is how we went from $18 trillion to $30 trillion in debt.