GOP said Congress would cut spending. Rep. Massie on how it broke down.
by Christa Case Bryant
Mar 22, 2024
4 minutes
It’s impossible to look at Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky without thinking about the national debt. And that’s by design.
The MIT engineer put in three 15-hour days writing 1,000 lines of code to create the little gadget clipped to his lapel. In numbers reminiscent of a gas station pump – in a font he designed pixel by pixel – it displays just how much the United States owes now…. And now…. And now.
The orange digits at the end whir so fast they’re blurry. In the hour-plus we spent talking in the ornate Speaker’s Lobby this week, the
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