What you’re telling me he made promises and stated many many things with no intention just to get the masses behind him? Well he does learn quick – PB/TK
White House budget director says Trump promise to eliminate debt was just ‘hyperbole’ – Ryan Koronowski April 12 2017
Donald Trump, elected president after a campaign where he made at least 663 promises to people around the country, may have been engaging in hyperbole on one of his biggest promises, his budget director admitted in an interview published Wednesday.
CNBC’s John Harwood asked Mick Mulvaney, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, “What about the goal of eliminating the debt, which President Trump at one point said he would do at the end of his second term?”
Mulvaney replied, “It’s fairly safe to assume that was hyperbole.”
“I’m not going to be able to pay off $20 trillion worth of debt in four years,” he continued. “I’d be being dishonest with you if I said that I could. The reason the president doesn’t want to change some of the mandatory spending, is because the public’s not ready for it yet. They’re ready for economic growth.”
Harwood asked this question right after Mulvaney had spent a minute defending infrastructure investments as “good spending.”
Continue to thinkprogress.org article: https://thinkprogress.org/budget-director-trump-promise-eliminate-debt-hyperbole-94729b73f3d6
