And again, without a single shred of evidence to support you, you claim fake news.
Conservatives who have been paying attention for the last few decades are very much aware of how the government cooks the books. We don't need to see any more evidence on the topic because we have seen evidence of it year after year after year after year.
The odd question is why *YOU* need to see more evidence to demonstrate that the government cooks the books? To most conservatives, this statement is axiomatic and hardly in dispute.
We're talking 1860, not 2018. What is your evidence that Lincoln was 'cooking the books' in his 1864 message to Congress?