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Obama's Budget Fight: How He'll Out-Game the Republicans

The president’s refusal to publicly attack the GOP over budget cuts has progressives terrified that he'll submit to their demands. But Ed Kilgore says Obama has no intention of caving.

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As Washington’s budget battles rage on, many progressives seem less frightened by the specter of Republicans slashing spending than by the conviction that the Obama administration will “cave in” to Republican demands.

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