Sunday marked the official three-year anniversary since Senate Democrats last adopted a budget. The office of Senate Budget Committee Republican Ranking Member Sen. Jeff Sessions released a statement to mark the occasion that tallies up some notable statistics from when the Senate’s Democratic majority last passed a budget:
1096 ……………….……….…. Days since the Senate majority last passed a budget
$10.4 trillion ………..……..Total federal spending since a budget was last adopted
$4.5 trillion ………………… New gross debt accumulated over that time
$15,000 ……….……………… Additional debt per person over that time
$39,000 ……….……………… Additional debt per family over that time
$626 billion ……………….. Net interest payments on the debt since a budget was last adopted
1…………………….………….….Budget mark-ups scheduled and then suddenly cancelled at the last minute by the Senate majority this year
0…………………….…………….Number of Democrat Senators who voted for any budget in the last two years
0………………………………….Number of votes in the House and Senate in support of President Obama’s budgets this year and last
511…………………….…………Number of combined votes against
51………………………..………..Number of votes need to pass a budget in the Senate
0……………………....………….Number of Democrat budget plans brought to the Senate floor in 2010
0………………………….....…….Number brought to the floor in 2011
0………………………………......Number brought to the floor in 2012
$17 trillion …………...….. Unfunded resulting from the President’s health care law
$100 trillion ……....……… Total unfunded obligations of the federal government
2024 ……………………..…… Projected year that Medicare will go bankrupt
2033 ………………………..…. Projected year that Social Security will go bankrupt
8.2 ………………....…………. Percent of workforce currently unemployed
38 …………………….....……. Months that unemployment has been above 8 percent
22,774,000 …………………. Approximate total number of workers currently unemployed and underemployed
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