The $1 trillion figure was an estimate of it's 10 year cost, which is how government program spending is most commonly measured. As for how Democrats feel about the cost that's irrelevant. You said Republicans preferred to cut spending, something that's laughably false given their record. Over the last 20 years or so Republicans have shown that they like increasing spending combined with large, debt financed tax cuts when Republicans are in power. They then proceed to lie about how they value fiscal responsibility when Democrats are in power when their real goal is to prevent the enactment of government programs designed to help the poor.
Their dishonesty is completely obvious to anyone paying attention but years of conservative attacks on the media have cowed the supposedly liberal media into credulously reporting on these lies instead of just calling them out for what they are. I have zero doubt that next time Democrats take power Republicans will suddenly discover fiscal responsibility again and lament as to how they 'lost their way in 2016', and I have zero doubt that after a few stories noting their previous hypocrisy the media will go back to pretending to believe them so as not to be called biased.
This has to be willful denial of reality at this point. Why would Democrats want to include spending cuts? The tax cuts are what should have been done away with, adding more foolish policy on top doesn't help anything. The fiscally responsible thing to do would have been to couple lowered rates with closed loopholes like the Republicans initially claimed they wanted to do. The problem with that of course is that wouldn't accomplish their main objective, which was to give more money to rich people. So instead they just did that, financed by public debt. Total fiscal irresponsibility. Let's contrast that with the last big piece of legislation Democrats put through, the ACA. That was an extremely fiscally responsible piece of legislation and it actually reduced the deficit. So yeah, both parties had a chance to implement their vision in major legislation going forward. The Democrats decided to be fiscally responsible and the Republicans threw fiscal responsibility out the window. More #bothsides bullshit designed to excuse Republican hypocrisy.
I imagine your next move will refuse to acknowledge this and instead complain about the high deficits under Obama, ignoring the fact that he was fighting catastrophic financial crisis that all logical economics said called for government spending to make up for a lack of private demand.
You seem to have misunderstood me, I was saying that you are repeating a number of transparent lies with a (presumably, haha) straight face. This is fairly common for conservatives these days.
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