To someone else, it is a dodge. That is all it is. It is us trying to fool the American people with a game of three-card Monte where we are pretending that the problem that we are decrying had somehow mysteriously evolved out of nowhere. I respect the concern of the authors of this bill about our debt. What I don't respect is the failure of Congress to address it.
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