Trump budget deal shows the tea party is very dead
by Clarence Page, Tribune Content Agency
Jul 26, 2019
3 minutes
Ah, memories. Remember how presidential candidate Donald Trump grandly promised to eliminate the federal debt in eight years? That's a memory he apparently hopes we forget.
You could hear that in the absence of "debt" or "deficit" in the high praise he enthusiastically tweeted Thursday ("I am totally with you!") for the two-year budget deal that White House and congressional budget negotiators reached earlier in the week.
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