Maria Cantwell actually said...

And now the CBO estimates that we will return to trillion-dollar deficits starting 2020.

When Bush took office in 2001, he was handed a surplus of $128.2 billion. But after two tax cut bills and two unpaid-for wars, we ended up w...

The United States is on an unsustainable fiscal course over the long term, and the tax cuts--if they are continued--would add considerably t...

But when Obama left, he made significant progress cleaning up after the Bush years. We cut the deficit by over half to $665.4 billion.