Social Security hurtles towards a cliff while it has a 'fix everything easily' button because no large scale reform is possible until it's the very last minute or far too late, then a sloppy and terrible solution is rammed through full of more pork.
The popular narrative is that one party is the party of fiscal responsibility and the other is fiscally wasteful. But the data don't really bear that out, and it's arguable that the opposite may be true.
I'd contend that yes they both need to be incentivized as such, but also a necessary but not sufficient step is to halt the narrative that one party is the one who cuts the waste.
This is not the same, even though it may be tempting to cry “both sides” and throw your hands up.
That was just one proposal with half a trillion.
According to any of the reporting I can find, the Inflation Reduction Act: "This bill would raise $737 billion in revenue while spending $437 billion. The remaining $300 billion would go toward deficit reduction." [0]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Build_Back_Better_Plan#Inflati...
This is pretty much the same story with every major policy proposal from the Biden administration. They all included plans to cover the expected costs.
It's pretty pointless to compare individual bills though as they are usually packaged up with the whole goals of the administration. And, as expect, Democratic administrations are far more fiscally responsible and consistently propose packages and goals that reduce the deficit.
You seem to have conflated the infrastructure bill with the inflation reduction bill.
Notably, and tellingly, any purported debt reduction from the inflation bill was made irrelevant from the $300bn of extra debt from the infra bill.
Let me know when you have an actually relevant source.
You seem laser focused on one specific bill (presumably the one bill from the Biden admin you could find with a deficit) but again, federal policy is larger than that.
Clinton was also not a Democrat if you compare him to current Democrats. His admin was more right wing than the Trump administration. Clinton's crime bill, serious immigration crackdowns. I mean, Trump did partial criminal justice reform in his first term. That's the complete opposite of the Clinton crime bill, which skyrocketed incarceration.
Clinton's IIRAIRA bill laid out the blueprint currently being utilized for rapid deportations. In fact, 'expedited removal' is a core feature of the bill. Also, he architected the concept of administrative warrants currently being used by ICE for deportations.