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no, that was a week ago, mcconnell-reid has moved quite a bit in recent days, now promising 1.5T in hard cuts
No, not real cuts. You should look at it very closely. A large portion of the cuts are things like reductions in military spending already expected because of the planned reductions in troop levels in Iraq and Afghanistan. The cuts in there are just a token so they can say they did something. The Democrats proposed $4T is actual cuts and revenue increases and got turned away. The McConnell thing is maybe, at the most, $1T. They accepted $3T in additional deficits just to facilitate this little circus they're putting on this week....