Hey, Big Spender: Kevin Cramer’s conversion from Deficit Hawk to Deficit Hiker

Cramer champions “tweaking” Social Security, Medicare & implementing “means testing” to pay for his bad spending habit

(BISMARCK, ND) – We all know sticking to a budget can be hard – but it’s especially tough when you ran for office campaigning on the need to eliminate the national debt, but are now trying your darndest to please a president you really, really like.
 
Just ask Kevin Cramer. On the campaign trail in 2012, Cramer painted himself as a dyed-in-the-wool deficit hawk – decrying national debt, proclaiming “North Dakotans have a responsibility to sacrifice,” and that the federal budget should be rolled back to 2008 levels.
 
In another case of Cramer saying one thing and doing another, now that there’s a new president in office, Cramer is whistling a much different tune – trading his once stringent, conservative opinions for the role of Presidential Rubber Stamp, North Dakota be damned.
 
Let’s take a look at just a few examples of the funny math and harmful cuts Cramer is now championing to explain the trillions he is putting on the credit card of North Dakotans: