If Congress doesn’t approve the spending cuts in the “rescissions” package proposed Tuesday by President Trump, it will be a dereliction of duty and a display of political cowardice.

These spending cuts ought to be considered nearly child’s play, and they should be the least Congress can do to show tiny evidence of fiscal sanity amid an otherwise outrageous spending spree.

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