When Republican politicians speak of debt, deficit and working class tax cuts, it's a bit like Democratic politicians speaking of peace, immigration and working class welfare.

And, yes, of course those politicians know exactly that they're bullshitting people, that goes for right wingers promising to "balance the budget" or stating that tax cuts supposedly pay for themselves, but it also goes for neoliberals giving the big talk about helping the poor, the huddled masses at the border, that war is bad and that they'd close existing torture prisons.

They never balance the budget, the poor keep getting shafted, deportations increase and conditions in camps get worse, the US keeps playing a key role in destroying poor countries and Gitmo is still running.