But my latest chart shows average deficits by presidential term. And if you look at it, you've got George Bush, George W. Bush had over eight years about $250 billion average deficit. Barack Obama came into office, bumped that up to 1.3 trillion in his first term. And then the Tea Party movement forced him to into discipline. Averaged about 550 in his last four years. President Trump came in, had to deal Democrats and so his bumped up to 800. (01:44–01:50)
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Asserts that the average deficit during Barack Obama's first term was $1.3 trillion.
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