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Marc Robbins's avatar

This is an odd framing. It puts budget negotiations *only* in terms of spending cuts, which will be the major concession Democrats have to make.

Where are the tax increases which would be the Republican concession in a budget negotiation? Apparently, already off the table. And why? Because the clear Republican concession in this "budget negotiation" is to agree to raise the debt ceiling and avert a calamity. (Thanks, Republicans!)

In other words, it's still a hostage situation with the Republicans holding the economy hostage.

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Peter Carnevale's avatar

Regarding the footnote: personally, I find it much more appealing that when Biden/Democratic policies are bad, they're usually bad for a good intention. I know that also sucks, but "let's do policy X so doing what we all thought was the key to success turned out to be stupidly expensive" is at least nice. Ideally, there would also be some kind of policy to address the reasons higher ed is stupidly expensive.

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