do you mean 10 years ago when they voted 34-15 in the Senate to spend $700 billion to bail out wall street? or from 2001-2009 when they grew the budget from $2 trillion to $3.5 trillion?https://twitter.com/JimJeffrey15/status/1037854774199308295 …
The only time Republicans were budget conscious in action (since ww2) was post 1946 wave election. They were ready to undo the New Deal but were stopped by Eisenhower later I think.