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The Trumpified GOP’s Great Big Ugly Debt Bomb

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david stockman
May 20, 2025
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When it comes to the Donald’s Big Beautiful Bill there is one place, and one place alone, to start the discussion. We are referring, of course, to the built-in baseline of revenues, outlays and deficits under current Federal law and policy.

Needless to say, the latest CBO baseline amounts to a five-alarm dumpster fire. If Congress does nothing about enti…

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