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Borrow-and-Spend Republicans
“This is not a fiscal stimulus; it’s not a sugar high,” Mulvaney said on of the president’s economic program, including the $1.5 trillion tax cut passed in late 2017.
The additional spending could increase the deficit to about $1.2 trillion in 2019, and there’s a risk that interest rates “will spike” as a result, Mulvaney said.
U.S. Treasury yields have been rising in recent weeks on worries that inflation is heating up as the spending package juices an economy already souped up by tax cuts and at or near full employment
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-11/u-s-budget-director-warns-interest-rates-may-spike-on-deficit
The Chinese are reducing their purchases of the Treasuries. A spike in interest rates will nullify the tax breaks the middle class got from the much touted reform.