{"id":2000775,"date":"2023-08-15T00:51:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T04:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-calls-out-federal-spending-binge-by-republicans-and-democrats\/"},"modified":"2023-08-15T00:51:35","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T04:51:35","slug":"desantis-calls-out-federal-spending-binge-by-republicans-and-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-calls-out-federal-spending-binge-by-republicans-and-democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis criticizes bipartisan &#8216;spending binge&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">10<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdesantis-calls-out-federal-spending-binge-by-republicans-and-democrats%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2000775&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Gov. Ron DeSantis: Both Parties Responsible for\u200b Excessive Government Spending<\/h2>\n<p>During a recent interview on CNBC&#8217;s Last Call, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) boldly stated that\u200c both\u200b political parties \u2064are to blame for the\u2062 alarming \u200cincrease in the\u200d national debt. He called out the hypocrisy of the GOP when it comes \u2064to spending, highlighting\u200c how they tighten their \u2064belts when out of power but go on a spending spree once in control.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;This idea\u200c that it\u2019s all the Democrats, I tell Republican audiences,\u2062 both parties \u2063have done\u200c it, both parties \u2063have \u2063been involved. And actually Republicans are very tough when they\u2019re out of power, but\u2064 when they get in power,\u200d they basically\u200d go\u200b on a spending\u2063 binge too. And I think you\u2019ve seen \u2064it over \u200bthe last five or six years, 100% it\u2019s a bipartisan thing,&#8221; DeSantis said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>DeSantis pointed to \u2064the excessive spending \u2063on the COVID-19 response by Congress during both the Trump and\u2062 Biden administrations. Despite the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-calls-out-federal-spending-binge-by-republicans-and-democrats\/\" title=\"DeSantis criticizes bipartisan 'spending binge'\">significant financial expenditure<\/a>, he criticized the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/6-7-million-covid-vaccines-given-in-u-s-with-70-of-available-doses-unused\/\" title=\"6.7 million COVID Vaccines Given in U.S. With 70% of Available Doses Unused\">federal government&#8217;<\/a>s poor\u200c handling of the pandemic. The Florida governor, who \u2063is also a Republican presidential\u2064 candidate, emphasized \u200chow\u200c spending for federal agencies always seems to increase once a new baseline is set, \u2062contributing\u2062 to the national debt.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;But what Congress has done, they&#8217;ve basically \u2062locked in that level of spending. Once <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-biden-picked-as-most-responsible-for-rise-in-inflation\/\" title=\"POLL: Biden Picked As Most Responsible For Rise In Inflation\">government increases spending<\/a>, that\u2063 kind of becomes the new baseline. You can\u2019t govern like that. In Florida, we basically do\u200b zero-based budgeting. You can head an agency in Florida, maybe you \u200bgot\u200c a billion \u2064dollars last year, you\u2019re \u200bnot entitled to get more than\u2064 a billion next year. You have \u200cto justify what you\u2019re going to do. We don\u2019t do that in\u2062 Washington so debt \u200bdoes matter,&#8221; DeSantis\u2062 explained.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The national debt has skyrocketed from $19.5 trillion in 2016 to\u200d over $32 trillion in 2023. While the COVID-19 pandemic played a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-this-average-american-is-voting-for-donald-trump\/\" title=\"Why This Average American Is Voting for Donald Trump\">significant role<\/a> in\u2064 this increase, the debt was \u2062already growing prior to and continues to grow after the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>During the interview, DeSantis also outlined his plan to reduce regulation and bureaucracy by cutting the \u200dfootprint of federal agencies in\u200d Washington, D.C., by 50%.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Gov. Ron \u200bDeSantis is in\u200c second place\u200b in the Republican primary, trailing only former \u200dPresident\u200c Donald Trump. He \u200dwill be participating in the \u2062first GOP presidential debate next week in Milwaukee, although it \u2064remains\u200b uncertain\u200c if Trump will attend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) blames both parties for excessive federal spending, highlighting the soaring national debt as evidence of America&#8217;s decline. 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