Politics

This Is the Golden Age of Deficit Reduction

R.I.P., Red Ink

As Washington chewed over the Paul Ryan-Patty Murray budget deal, the Treasury Department announced a walloping drop in red ink. Turns out government didn’t need a “grand bargain” to get its fiscal house in order.

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