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Congress needs to rethink how it makes a budget

By James Wallner
Published June 14, 2017 9:56pm ET
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Congress needs to rethink how it makes a budget
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Congress has a problem. The federal budget is a mess, and its members have yet to demonstrate the willingness to fix it.

This is a problem because it’s their job to budget.

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