Today’s notice: Ideas meet reality. Trump meets the economy. On the ground in Alabama. And that unresolved D.C. budget thing is staying unresolved.
Between the Rock…
How do Republicans make the kinds of federal spending cuts the party has promised for decades while keeping those cuts from spelling electoral oblivion?
That’s the question Republican lawmakers are trying to answer this week as they hash out the details of the budget bill. We don’t often get to see members really sweating policy like this; it’s usually more fun to talk about than to do. (See: Democrats circa 2009-2010 on that whole health care reform thing, don’t ask them about the electoral oblivion part.)