The Donkey-dominated House of the 1980s (O'Neill, Rostenkowski and the whole gang of idiots) was the entity that pushed all the massive spending bills through, squandering the extra revenue from the tax-cut-expanded economy.
NOT ONE of Reagans budgets got past tip o’neill. DOA, he called them. They were replaced with budgets written by dim-0s, producing the deficits that dim-0s then blamed on Reagan.
Same thing with klinton. Not one of his budgets went thru, from ‘95 on and not one was even balanced, let alone surplus producing. The new Governor elect of Ohio wrote the budget that produced the PROJECTED surplus.