Issue Position: Debt and Deficit: When to Deal with it

Issue Position

Despite what we hear, now is not the time to be focused on the deficit. Now is the time to be focusing on putting people back to work, and reviving America's economy. Spending should be cut and revenues raised once the economy is strong again.

Here's why the Republicans' focus is dangerously counter-productive: it not only distracts us from the urgent task at hand, which is to get Americans back to work, but it also threatens to make that problem worse by damaging our still-fragile recovery.

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