Brian Higgins actually said...

Every Republican since Nixon has left office with a worse deficit situation than they inherited without exception.

Every Democratic presidential administration has left office with a better deficit situation as a percentage of GDP than they inherited.

Those surpluses were taken by the next administration, a Republican administration, to provide tax cuts to the very, very wealthy on the fau...

They contributed to the debt and therefore have a moral responsibility to raise the debt ceiling to help the American economy.