With More Financial Triage to Come, Will Parties Play Together?

By Norman Ornstein
Roll Call Contributing Writer

October 9, 2008

What a mess the next president and Congress will face! Fiscal discipline is in a shambles, a bad situation made worse by the Senate’s eager embrace of another $100 billion in unfunded programs to pass the financial rescue/bailout package. We will almost certainly add to the long-term problem with one or more economic stimulus packages in January, probably worth another $100 billion or more in infrastructure broadly defined.

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