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General Category => Editorial/Opinion/Blogs => Topic started by: EasyAce on February 07, 2018, 09:32:50 pm
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Both parties agree on more spending and bigger deficits
By Peter Suderman
http://reason.com/blog/2018/02/07/senate-reaches-bipartisan-deal-to-keep-t/print (http://reason.com/blog/2018/02/07/senate-reaches-bipartisan-deal-to-keep-t/print)
After weeks of negotiation, Republicans and Democrats in the Senate have reached the outlines of a spending deal that would avert a government shutdown.
Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called the deal "the first real sprout of bipartisanship," and said he hoped it would "break the long cycle of spending crises that have snarled Congress." Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, the chamber's top Republican, called the agreement a "significant bipartisan step forward" and suggested that it could help "make 2018 a year of significant achievement for Congress."
So how did the two sides finally come together? They decided to spend more—on everything. And they'll worry about paying for it later (or maybe not at all) . . .
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With a "significant achievement" like that, give me a do-nothing Congress any old day.---EA.
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