For journalists covering domestic policy, this past week poses some hard choices. Should we focus on the Trump budget’s fraudulence — not only does it invoke $2 trillion in phony savings, it counts them twice — or on its cruelty? Or should we talk instead about the Congressional Budget Office assessment of Trumpcare, which would be devastating for older, poorer and sicker Americans?
There is, however, a unifying theme to all these developments. And that theme is contempt — Donald Trump’s contempt for the voters who put him in office....
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/26/opinion/trumpcare-cbo-federal-budget.html?em_pos=small&emc=edit_ty_20170526&nl=opinion-today&nl_art=3&nlid=78638145&ref=headline&te=1&_r=0
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