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Fiscal Conservatism Dead: Trump’s Deal with Democrats Unleashes Spending, Uncaps Debt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dvsUx496Sk
July 23 2019
President Trump’s budget deal with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer unleashes spending, kills the only existing restraint on it, and uncaps the national debt. The political move takes the debate off the table during the presidential election season. Pelosi and Schumer crow that the deal allows them to “advance progress for the people.” Does it also signal that any claim to fiscal conservatism by Republicans is dead?
Fiscal conservatism was never more than a talking point for the GOP to use when there was a Democrat in the White House.
The signal is that the spending battles will be fought on another day from higher ground, in the futrue.
At present, there are other, bigger fish to fry
Is that the right course? It is the consensus course
Politics is the art of the possible
There has long been discussion (and planning) to address structural debt, in the second term.
The President re-iterated that intention, after the budget deal.