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Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) is joined by fellow Senate Republicans for a May 3, 2023, news conference where he urged the White House and Senate Democrats to pass House GOP legislation that would raise the debt limit but cut federal spending. More than nine months later, federal fiscal sanity is still in short supply. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
David Ditch is a policy analyst specializing in budget and transportation policy in the Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget at The Heritage Foundation.