The CBO has reported that the DREAM Act would reduce the deficit by $1.4 billion over the next 10 years. This is very unfortunate for the Republicans since their highly paid, completely bias economists had previously come up with a figure of $6 billion added to the deficit.
Now that the official CBO report is out you would assume Republicans would be all over it, after all, they claim that the recent election was a referendum on big spending government and reducing the deficit is their top priority. The problem is Republicans only talk about deficit reduction when they don't like a bill and stating their actual rationale behind their object is not politically popular.
As the information piles up Democrats are proving to be the more fiscally conservative party of late. Republicans are against Health Care reform even though it reduces the deficit. Republicans want to keep the Bush tax cuts even though they increase the deficit. Republicans voted against the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act which cuts the deficit by $1.3 billion over the next 10 years. Add to this the 8 years of Republican led spending under Bush and you start to see that Republicans don't hate the deficit, they hate non-wealthy Americans.
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