Not so, a big myth, there never was a surplus.
Bush took office in January 2001 and his first budget took effect October 1, 2001 for the year ending September 30, 2002 (FY2002). So the $133.29 billion deficit in the year ending September 2001 was Clinton's
Where do people get this stuff from?
They are not even counting the huge hole of S.S. that started with Johnson "borrowing" from it and leaving an IOU