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'Have their hands dirty': Billionaire GOP donor throws down on Trump policies
What happened
Ken Griffin, the billionaire founder of Citadel and a major Republican donor, said President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans made a serious fiscal error by extending tax cuts when the United States lacked the capacity to absorb the lost revenue. Speaking Tuesday at a New York conference, Griffin said Republicans “have their hands dirty” primarily because of the tax cuts, and called Trump’s tariff conflict with Europe “a fiasco,” according to AlterNet’s account of Bloomberg’s reporting.
Griffin’s criticism comes as federal debt has exceeded $40 trillion and the budget…
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