Debt Ceiling Deal Faces First Key Test
CNN Political Briefing
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The White House Plays Defense When It Comes to Progressive Criticisms
House Minority Leader Hakim Jeffries, the Democrat from New York, said that he still has to sell this deal to progressives. Even what progressive Congressman Jamal Bowman of New York told my colleague Wolf Blitzer yesterday about the bill. But one of the major concerns is on non-defense discretionary spending. While the defense budget continues to go up, our ability to feed our children goes down.
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