Obama did it in 2009 and Republicans acquiesced, running trillion dollar plus deficits for four straight years until Republicans enforced some fiscal discipline in Obama's second term.
The author below, a Republican, doesn't mention that.
Will Republicans acquiesce again?
If they do, the national debt will easily swell to in excess of $51 trillion by 2033, from $31 trillion at the end of 2022.
From the story, "Trillion-dollar deficits: Biden’s new normal":
The president and his White House have taken the 2020 COVID-19, one-time-only crisis budget as his administration’s working baseline, rather than the pre-Covid 2019 budget, which had a significant $4.4 trillion price tag.
In 2020, because of the pandemic, the budget jumped 47 percent to $6.5 trillion, as both Democrats and Republicans supported the need for emergency funding. That COVID funding was to sunset as the country returned to normal — as it did last year. Apparently, Biden decided to ignore that crucial point.
