Opinion: GOP or Democrat, we need to pay for spending bills in full

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Opinion: GOP or Democrat, we need to pay for spending bills in full

During my time as a Democratic member of Congress from Georgia, one of my enduring memories was being lectured by former Speaker Nancy Pelosi that she cared more about the deficit and national debt than any Republican!This was in 2021. when Democrats had a four-vote majority in the U.S. House, and I had joined with a handful of moderate Democrats to insist that Build Back Better, the $3.5 trillion social spending bill that Pelosi and President Joe Biden wanted to pass, be fully offset by some combination of revenue increases or spending reductions. And not just rhetorically “paid for” by ..