Imagine that I’m president, and I sign a bill that says a bridge will be built over the Potomac. Imagine, further, that the bridge is never actually built.

Now, do you think that The New York Times would report that our imaginary bridge exists anyway, simply based on a government report on regional commerce that is based on earlier assumptions that the bridge would be built?

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