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Statehouse Beat: Saving Money with Cuts Still Comes at a Cost
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Charleston Gazette-MailStatehouse beat: Saving money with cuts still comes at a cost
As I’ve made mention on multiple occasions, a hallmark of the Republican Party is a relentless demand for cuts in government spending and elimination of governmental waste — unless a certain someone is doing the wasteful spending.
U.S. Senate majority leader John Thune has conditioned Thursday’s rise in the debt ceiling on the inclusion of spending cuts, a demand that tightens negotiations with the White House as the Treasury’s ‘X-Date’ approaches. “I would love for the debt limit debate to include spending cuts,” Thune told the Daily Caller News Foundation. His office refused to specify how strongly the Republican leadership would fight for those cuts, but the message is…
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