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Ultimatums from the House Freedom Caucus won’t stop the spending binge

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The House Freedom Caucus led a charge against a continuing resolution that was enacted to keep the government open through early March .

Kevin Kosar : The Freedom Caucus can best advance the goal of fiscal responsibility by focusing its candidate recruitment efforts on increasing the numbers of budget hawks on Capitol Hill and winning the White House .

Kosar says the deal cut by Speaker McCarthy and seconded by Speaker Johnson is not awful.

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