I think the lesson to me of the last few years is it is politically very hard to do grand bargains, but if we keep chipping away incrementally, we can make progress, first, to stabilize the debt and then to put it on a downward path.
King discusses the difficulty of achieving large political agreements and suggests incremental progress.
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