Later in the day, the president of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Budget said that while the debt outstanding did decline by $12 billion in his first month, it had nothing to do with new policies implemented by his administration.
“It is true the debt outstanding declined by $12 billion in the first month of Donald Trump’s presidency. We applaud the president for focusing on the debt as an important metric of success and economic health, but would point out that the improvement this early in his term has to do with normal fluctuations in spending and revenues rather than new policies he has implemented,” Maya MacGuineas said.
She added that she hopes Mr. Trump’s forthcoming budget blueprint will lay out a plan to shrink the national debt instead of growing it.
“Our economy’s debt is one of the most important metrics of the nation’s health, and a reasonable fiscal plan based on realistic economic projections will be a critical piece of a comprehensive plan to grow the economy and help American families,” she said.
which makes no comparison of the cost of that kind of fraud over different administration terms, as of course there will always be some in a program that size .. so that article is nothing more than an meaningless hit job on Obama .. heh, and didn't you see the contradiction in the heading
Liberals Forgot That Obama Paid Over $1 Billion In Social Security To ILLEGALS
and this bit
Over the last decade, the agency paid $1 billion to 22,426 representative payees who “did not have an SSN, and SSA had not followed its policy to retain the paper application.”
from the body?? .. they are in obvious conflict with each other, as Obama wasn't in for a decade .. that boob is a measure of the quality of the missed jab.