Why Trump, Why?
December 20, 2024
Why does Donald Trump want to suspend the debt ceiling for two years? I thought he was going to cut spending? The first time he was elected, when he had a Republican majority in both houses of Congress for the first two years, spending went through the roof and the national debt increased. Looks like the same thing will happen this time.
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.
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