Buttigieg Gives Trump Too Much Blame for Debt
Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg blamed tax cuts backed by President Donald Trump for creating the nation’s debt problem. But while the Congressional Budget Office says those tax cuts are worsening the nation’s debt, spiraling deficits and debt over the next decade were projected even before those tax cuts were enacted.
Buttigieg’s comments came during a Jan. 28 town hall event in Ottumwa, Iowa, in response to an audience question about what he would do to protect Medicaid and Social Security.
Buttigieg argued that in the face of soaring debt, Trump “would have us believe we’ve got no choice but to stop investing in education, infrastructure, health care, you name it, and even to cut Medicaid or Medicare or Social Security.”
(Trump’s have regularly called for spending cuts to domestic programs, including and , though Congress largely has ignored those requests. As for potential cuts to Social Security and Medicare, Democrats Trump for recently he would “take a look at” spending on “entitlements” such as Social Security and Medicare. Trump later that he would “save” Social Security, although he has offered no plan to do so.)
