The House Budget Committee Republicans have put out this graph purporting to predict government spending as a percentage of GDP for the next 50 or so years. Unsurprisingly, they presume that spending will skyrocket under Democratic budgets as designed by Democratic presidents and congressional leaders who haven’t been elected yet, but that spending will decrease under Republican governance.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=144265