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What The Debt Ceiling And George Santos's Career Have In Common

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Is It a Crazy Idea to Cut Government Spending?

I think the Freedom Caucus types just want to create chaos and don't really give a s*** when it really does the GOP's electoral prospects. The more establishment side of the GOP has a strong ideological commitment toward cutting government spending. And I think they kind of like the GOP has touched the third rail enough of entitlement cuts and been punished for it.

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