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Inside the record-breaking spending binge destroying the GOP's credibility

The Deficit Is the AlibiRepublican Austerity Is a CostumeThe immediate story is simple: Catherine Rampell’s account shows Republicans once again promising deficit discipline while engineering another reconciliation bill, after already using the process twice since Trump’s second term began. The numbers in the source matter because they expose the scam. Republicans added trillions in deficits with one bill, tens of billions more with another, and now talk about a fourth round as if the problem were unfinished business rather than the governing plan.Power Lives With Leadership, Not the…

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