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The House faction of budget hawks yammers about cutting deficits, but this week, when it came to Trump’s budget bill, once again, they caved.

The House faction of budget hawks yammers about cutting deficits, but this week, when it came to Trump’s Big, Beautiful budget bill, once again, they caved. The Washington Monthly is an independent ...

The Washington Monthly is an independent voice, listened to by insiders and willing to take on sacred cows—liberal and conservative. And we need your support.

The House faction of budget hawks yammers about cutting deficits, but this week, when it came to Trump’s Big, Beautiful budget bill, once again, they caved. The Washington Monthly is an independent ...

The House faction of budget hawks yammers about cutting deficits, but this week, when it came to Trump’s Big, Beautiful budget bill, once again, they caved. The Washington Monthly is an independent ...

The House faction of budget hawks yammers about cutting deficits, but this week, when it came to Trump’s Big, Beautiful budget bill, once again, they caved. The Washington Monthly is an independent ...

The House faction of budget hawks yammers about cutting deficits, but this week, when it came to Trump’s Big, Beautiful budget bill, once again, they caved. At this moment of deep political division, ...

The Washington Monthly is an independent voice, listened to by insiders and willing to take on sacred cows—liberal and conservative. And we need your support.

Grievance dressed as law, history warped into license, today’s Court is not checking Trump’s authoritarianism—it’s codifying ...

Supporting the GENIUS Act, a crypto industry-backed bill that ostensibly regulates “stablecoins,” is a political and economic ...

Jacqueline Kennedy is shown here with CBS reporter Charles Collingwood during her television tour of the White House in February 1962. Credit: Associated Press The through line of Trump’s dark ...