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Perry Bacon Jr. @perrybaconjr
Congressional Democrats have some incentive to hype the spending ("We are doing things!"). So do Republicans ("socialism"). But $350 billion a year in the context of around $5 trillion yearly in total federal spending is big but perhaps not super-dramatic. — PolitiTweet.org