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Spending | Budget The Bipartisan Budget Act will compound the fiscal problem, and ironically the debt limit – which is supposed to help constrain spending – provided an excuse for hasty action. Read More...Tags: Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018, Bipartisan Budget Act of 2019, Rep. Thomas Massie, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Offfsets, Steven Mnuchin, debt limit, President Donald Trump , budget proposal for fY 2020, Russell Vought, Sen. Mitch McConnell, offsets, CHIMPS, no "poison pills", President Barack Obama Obama, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, James Madison, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Mark Esper, economic results, trade policies
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Political SystemPresident’s “farewell address” won’t cover much new ground, but it may tend to deepen the partisan divide. Read More...Tags: Barack Obama, farewell address, Chicago, Harry Truman, George Washington, mid-December press conference, weekly address, exit memoranda letter, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan , George W. Bush, Dwight Eisenhower, Bill Clinton, Cicero