“If you pursue an economic strategy of cutting taxes, cutting spending, and reducing government, it will lead to a failure,” Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said at a recent Brookings Institute event. But just a few short years ago, we saw the U.S. poverty rate drop to its lowest rate ever and the unemployment rate fall to 3.5% as a result of the Trump tax cuts.

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