When Congress was considering the One Big Beautiful Bill Act in June last year, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D.-New York) pretended he was dedicated to fiscal restraint. “Senate Republicans’ bill would blow a $3.3 trillion hole in the debt to pay for billionaire tax breaks.
“This is the biggest debt increase in U.S. history,” he said.
In fact, as this column has noted before, when Schumer w…