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Center on Budget & Policy Priorities: Rising Federal Debt Should Not Shortchange Response to COVID-19 Crisis
May 22, 2020
WASHINGTON, May 22 -- The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities issued the following news on May 21:

By Richard Kogan and Paul N. Van de Water

Some policymakers have cited the growing national debt in calling for pausing efforts to relieve the health, humanitarian, and economic crises stemming from COVID-19. But it would be unwise and self-defeating to let debt concerns deter policymakers from taking needed steps to fight hardship and to bolster and then revive the eco . . .

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