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Trump's and GOP's Big Beautiful Bill

May
23
2025
Trump's and GOP's Big Beautiful Bill
Peter Kuper, PoliticalCartoons.com
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How the debt limit talks end

May
5
2023
How the debt limit talks end
HOW THE DEBT LIMIT TALKS END by Kevin Siers, CagleCartoons.com
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Tinkertoy Infrastructure

Aug
8
2021
Tinkertoy Infrastructure
TINKERTOY INFRASTRUCTURE by Randall Enos, politicalcartoons.com
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Deficit Hawks Sleep on Trillion Dollar Deficits

Oct
31
2019
Deficit Hawks Sleep on Trillion Dollar Deficits
RJ Matson, Portland, ME
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Trillion dollar coin

Jan
9
2013
Trillion dollar coin
TRILLION DOLLAR COIN by Joe Heller, politicalcartoons.com
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Heller depicts the controversial proposal to mint a $1 trillion platinum coin as a way to sidestep the debt ceiling in January 2013, a creative but constitutionally dubious idea championed by legal scholars during the standoff. The cartoon captures Washington's search for clever workarounds to self-imposed fiscal constraints.
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