How old are you? If you're a Gen-Xer you should remember Clinton's surpluses if you followed the news:
* https://www.brookings.edu/articles/a-surplus-if-we-can-keep-...
Then Bush got in (beating Gore by ~600 votes in Florida to take the Electoral College), and then did tax cuts and later war spending:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_tax_cuts
* https://www.cbpp.org/research/the-legacy-of-the-2001-and-200...
More recently, when the GOP controlled Congress and White House (Trump), they did a bunch of tax cuts:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Cuts_and_Jobs_Act
How old are you? If you're a Gen-Xer you should remember Clinton's surpluses if you followed the news:
* https://www.brookings.edu/articles/a-surplus-if-we-can-keep-...
Then Bush got in (beating Gore by ~600 votes in Florida to take the Electoral College), and then did tax cuts and later war spending:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_tax_cuts
* https://www.cbpp.org/research/the-legacy-of-the-2001-and-200...
More recently, when the GOP controlled Congress and White House (Trump), they did a bunch of tax cuts:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Cuts_and_Jobs_Act