I snicker whenever the administration says ". . . for the past eight years . . . "
For the first five of the past eight years, the GOP did indeed control the House, Senate, and Oval Office. And they spent too much money.
For the next two, the Dems controlled both houses of Congress . . . where spending bills come from . . . and that's about the time things began heading south.
And for a bit more than a year, it's been the Dems who control the House, Senate and Oval Office. And look where we are now, and where we're headed.
There's an old proverb that this administration should heed: "Man who live in glass house should not throw stones."