Today’s grim CBO scoring of the Obama budget, which is even more harsh than most people seemed to expect, belies simply every economic argument the Obama team made for their budget a few weeks ago. By all rights, it should indeed “throw a major monkey wrench into efforts to enact Obama’s budget,” as the AP asserts it will. But I wouldn’t be so sure.

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Yuval Levin is the director of social, cultural, and constitutional studies at the American Enterprise Institute and the editor of National Affairs. His most recent book is American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation -- and Could Again.
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