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Topic: Budget deficits

Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist attends a press conference outside the U.S. Capitol April 18, 2023. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

The "big, beautiful" bill's true father

Heather Digby Parton
Donald Trump (Getty/Jim Watson)

For GOP, deficits don't matter again

Matthew Rozsa
(AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Deficits don't matter, again

Matthew Rozsa
(AP/Charlie Neibergall)

Marco Rubio's real scandal

Simon Maloy
Bobby Jindal, Grover Norquist (AP/Jim Cole/Carolyn Kaster)

Norquist breaks the GOP

Simon Maloy
(AP/Rogelio V. Solis)

4 secret taxes on the poor

Leah A. Plunkett
Grover Norquist, President of Americans for Tax Reform (AP/Yuri Gripas)

Austerity never works

Robert Kuttner