Breaking that cycle would require taking a hatchet to the “swollen mass” of government programs and bureaucracies, said David Ditch, a policy analyst at the conservative Heritage Foundation.
House Republicans still seeking to beat the unbeatable spending foe
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As Mr. Ditch notes: "While stopping one or all these absurd boondoggles would not make much of a dent in the national debt, it would mark a rare victory for common sense and fiscal sanity."
Both parties will be blamed if the government shuts down
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