It has almost become a regular cycle.  We get eight years with a Republican administration where they blow all the efforts of the previous Democrat administration out of the fiscal water.  IIRC, Clinton actually had a positive surplus on the budget only to have Dubya come along throw all fiscal restraints out the window spoil it.  Then Obama had to pick up the pieces and now with the Trump administration out goes any sense of fiscal responsibility again.  It doesn't help any that the Trump administration is borrowing from the Reagan administration's voodoo economics to justify unnecessary, if not unwise if Gov. Brown's experiment is any indicator, tax cuts to the wealthy and already low taxed corporations.