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The GOP leadership maintains that they can do it all ?- save Social Security, save Medicare and slash taxes ?- and yet few, including moderates in their own party, seem to believe that. And Greenspan may have hit upon the reason why: this multi-trillion-dollar surplus, which materialized in the last...
The Republicans are betting the next Congress on a showdown with Bill Clinton over tax cuts. The challenge will be getting to the big game in one piece. As the GOP leadership gets ready to stampede a massive cut through the Senate this week, they?ll be stepping on the...
In the meantime, it looks more and more like the GOP leaders against the world. From the White House (Al Gore stopped by late Tuesday to trash the bill for neglecting Medicare) to the polls, the appetite for a cut that big just isn?t there right now. Even fellow...
In the end, Republican moderates decided to spare neophyte Speaker Dennis Hastert the embarrassment. In exchange for a hastily scrawled amendment tying the later years of a 10-year, $792 billion tax cut to promised reductions in the national debt, the "Hell no" folks said "What the heck" and climbed...
"The numbers for this cut are based on mandatory spending caps that Congress and the White House put in to get the budget deal done in 1997," Branegan says. "They were just stopgaps. For the Republicans to say that they?ll stick to them for the next 10 years - when...