Background reading:

• Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury secretary, said that Washington must grapple with the mounting federal debt, just as lawmakers are embarking on a significant spending spree.

• Three pillars of the Republican Party’s economic platform over the last decade were less government spending, a smaller deficit and policy certainty. Not anymore.

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