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Linda J. Bilmes

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A quarantine warning is displayed outside the horse racing track at Turf Paradise, Friday, Jan. 29, 2016, in Phoenix. Turf Paradise has euthanized one horse and is quarantining two others in the wake of a herpes outbreak that surfaced in New Mexico.(AP Photo/Matt York) (AP)

The Trump administration has made the U.S. less ready for infectious disease outbreaks

Linda J. Bilmes
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Iraq and Afghanistan: The $6 trillion bill for America’s longest war is unpaid

Linda J. Bilmes
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Americans think national parks are worth $92 billion: Why don’t we fund them accordingly?

Linda J. Bilmes, John Loomis