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The New Politics of (Big) Spending

Plus: A Letter From Ronjon

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Charlie Sykes
Mar 10, 2021
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You don’t have to be that rare avian creature, the fiscal conservative, to recognize that we are spending a lot of money on the nation’s credit card. Axios is calling it “America’s $5 Trillion Bet”.

That’s a big money cannon, and some of us have questions.

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