Obama and a 'Grand Bargain'
https://portside.org/2017-12-18/obama-and-grand-bargain
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Author: Senator Tom Harkin
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New York Times
'Of course some of us responded by saying "Yes. But what is in that grand bargain?" We don't want to start whacking away at Social Security.'
Iowa Senator Tom Harkin
after a lunch with Senate Democrats
at which President Obama said
it was critically important to work
with Republicans in order to reach
a "grand bargain" to reduce the
country's budget deficit.