Amid Fast-Growing Debt and Need for Tax Cut Extension, House GOP Fails, So Far, To Meet the Occasion

Their latest budget blueprint shows that fiscal responsibility vanishes the moment real choices arise.

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Speaker Johnson and Representative Chip Roy at the Capitol on May 8, 2024. Kent Nishimura/Getty Images

Serious problems should be met with serious solutions. We have serious problems, namely a fast-growing debt and a need to extend some tax cuts in an unforgiving environment where interest rates are high and inflation is rising again. 

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