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    Jackie Calmes: On the debt-ceiling crisis, take it from moderate Republicans: Be afraid, be very afraid

    A group of moderate Republicans and former Republicans in Washington who call themselves the Concerned — as in, for the state of their party and the country — are really concerned these days. Some are even more than concerned. "This really scares me," said one man in the group's Zoom meet-up this week. That was Bill Hoagland, who for a quarter-century was a top budget advisor to Senate ...
    by Jackie Calmes, Los Angeles Times Feb 04, 2023 4 minutes
    House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy speaks to the press outside the West Wing after meeting with President Joe Biden and other congressional leaders in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2022 in Washington, DC.

    A group of moderate Republicans and former Republicans in Washington who call themselves the Concerned — as in, for the state of their party and the country — are really concerned these days.

    Some are even more than concerned. "This really scares me," said one man in the group's Zoom meet-up this week.

    That was , who for a quarter-century was a top budget advisor to Senate Republican leaders — from the Reagan era, through Newt Gingrich's "revolution," to the dawn of the tea party — and now is a senior vice president at the Bipartisan Policy Center. What has between the newly empowered House Republican majority and President Biden over the essential act of raising the nation's debt limit.

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