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GOP said Congress would cut spending. Rep. Massie on how it broke down.

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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