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>>Forced on him by a Republican congress. <<

C’mon man. EVERY Republican in Congress opposed the plan. Hell, I opposed a lot of it. But let’s at least tell the truth, ok? -MrF

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https://www.cato.org/commentary/no-bill-clinton-di...

Let us establish one point definitively: Bill Clinton didn’t balance the budget. Yes, he was there when it happened. But the record shows that was about the extent of his contribution.
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When Republicans proposed their own balanced-budget plan, the White House waged a shameless Mediscare campaign to torpedo the plan — a campaign that the Washington Post slammed as “pure demagoguery.” It was Bill Clinton who, during the big budget fight in 1995, had to submit not one, not two, but five budgets until he begrudgingly matched the GOP’s balanced-budget plan. In fact, during the height of the budget wars in the summer of 1995, the Clinton administration admitted that “balancing the budget is not one of our top priorities.”
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