WASHINGTON: The head of a conservative Republican faction in the US Congress, who voted this month for a huge expansion of the national debt to pay for tax cuts, called himself a “fiscal conservative” on Sunday and urged budget restraint in 2018.
In keeping with a sharp pivot under way among Republicans, US representative Mark Meadows, speaking on CBS’ Face the Nation, drew a hard line on federal spending, which lawmakers are bracing to do battle over in January.
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