Ledger · 2016 campaign · № 42
Balance the federal budget "fairly quickly"
Never delivered“[paraphrase] We can balance the budget fairly quickly.”
- Promised
- , Campaign interviews
- Stated deadline
- “fairly quickly”
- Re-promised
- 8 times with a fresh deadline
- Topic
- Economy & prices
- Era
- 2016 campaign
What happened
The deficit grew every year of the term, from $585 billion in fiscal 2016 to $984 billion in fiscal 2019 and $3.1 trillion in fiscal 2020. PolitiFact rated the promise broken, noting the deficit was growing rather than shrinking.