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Hardline Republicans — specifically those members of the House Freedom Caucus — are being derided in the press, as if they’ve been playing a game.

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That is, threatening not to vote for the One Big Beautiful Bill when, supposedly, everyone knew in the end, they would cave and vote for it.

However, the derision overlooks the key point.

The focus of these conservative Republicans is the disastrous fiscal state of affairs of our country. The real point is not whether or not these members were making empty threats. The real point is the frustration that the country’s problems are so massive that it is impossible to deal with them in one piece of legislation. Even if the Freedom Caucus members got the additional spending cuts they........

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