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Too bad the Trump administration went on a spending spree while the economy was good, instead of trying to balance budgets. Now we are on the edge of recession - with a historic deficit to worry about washingtonpost.com/business/2020/…
just one example: govt aid to farmers - compensation for losses caused by the trade war - is twice as large as the auto industry bailout people were so upset about in 2009 axios.com/trump-trade-wa…
...and, yes, of course, tax-cut-for-the-rich spree too. So that, in a crisis, there would be no cushion
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