Morally wrong and politically suicidal

Sen. Josh Hawley is a deeply conservative and decidedly ambitious Republican from Missouri who hopes to run for president. In an extraordinary essay for The New York Times, he broke sharply from Donald Trump and his allies on Capitol Hill who are promoting a huge budget bill that would slash popular safety net programs like Medicaid and food stamps to finance trillions of dollars in tax ...

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