Newt and grew didn’t balance the budget. They didn’t run a surplus, or pay any extra to the debt.
“Newt and grew didn’t balance the budget.”
I’ll have to check, but I think they did ... I think there was one year the government ran a surplus in the 1990s, but there was obviously still a national deficit in the trillions.
The media claimed that Clinton balanced everything of course due to his tax hikes in the early 1990s. They also tried hard to make it seem like the USA was debt free, the business cycle was solved, and that only good times lie ahead.
Of course, as the economy grinded to a halt throughout 2000, Bush got all of the blame the moment he took office (that frigging moron, even considering 9/11, could have, at a minimum, maintained a balanced budget seeing that he had the House and Senate when he was elected ... he spent like a Democrat though and the rest is history).