The facts about the growth of spending under Obama

The spokesmans words caught our attention because here at The Fact Checker we try to root out “BS wherever it occurs.

Carney made his comments while berating reporters for not realizing that “the rate of spending — federal spending — increase is lower under President Obama than all of his predecessors since Dwight Eisenhower, including all of his Republican predecessors. He cited as his source an article by Rex Nutting, of MarketWatch, titled, “Obama spending binge never happened, which has been the subject of lots of buzz in the...