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The Congressional Budget Office says Uncle Sam will spend around $46 trillion over the next 10 years. Assume the committee proposes and Congress enacts a further $1.2 trillion in deficit reduction atop the deal’s $900 billion in initial cuts, and that all this is done on the spending side (though “tax reform” is supposed to be included). That means we’ll have trimmed less than 6 percent from federal spending that is already slated to increase from $3.6 trillion to $5.7 trillion by 2021.

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