There is no consensus at all about what the budget debate is supposed to accomplish.
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The president's budget is not the agenda-setting development or event that it used to be. They use it to make a political statement. It should in no way be taken as what they would actually do or what they actually want or what they're ultimately going to accept.
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The numbers themselves are far less important than how much they changed the politics of the budget debate. In a classic only-Nixon-can-go-to-China situation, Reagan made deficits acceptable.
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It's a shadow of its former self, and it wasn't much to begin with.
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