If anything is more bipartisan than massive overspending, it’s corporate welfare. That’s why the 2-year budget deal Congress passed and President Trump signed last week was a perfect piece of bipartisan swampiness.
The bill’s budget-busting price tag made headlines, as did the dismantling of the Tea Party-era spending caps known as sequestration. But all the attention on the Republican Party’s hypocrisy on deficits left insufficient attention for the other deplorable aspect of the bill: the revival of expired special-interest tax breaks.
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