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The real cost of Trump's inaction
The Real Budget Is the One Written by PowerThe Budget Fight Is the ScreenThe source starts with familiar fiscal theater: military spending versus social need, deficit talk versus priorities. That is the distraction. The real story is not what Washington cannot afford. It is what the people with power are choosing to fund, ignore, and reward.Trump is the named executor here: a war in Iran, a proposed $1.5 trillion Defense Department budget, and cuts to public health, education, Medicaid, Medicare, and nutrition assistance. That is not an accident of governance. It is a governing program.Who…
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