What’s another $1.7T in the omnibus when you’ve taken the national debt to $31.4T?
By Post Editorial Board
December 26, 2022
The $1.7 trillion omnibus itself was loaded with laughable pieces of pork — self-named monuments for various legislators; a chauffeur for the IRS commissioner — but it’s just the latest in a long trend for DC’s free spending and ever-growing government bureaucracy.
Biden has presided so far over a jump in the national debt from around $28 trillion to $31.43 trillion, all as the hideous American Rescue Plan ($1.9 trillion), CHIPS Act ($280 billion) and infrastructure bill ($1.2 trillion) were rammed through. All these outlays, especially the ones financed with debt, have only fueled the worst inflation in decades.
