“Nobody is a fiscal conservative anymore. All this talk about concern for the deficit and the budget has been bogus for as long as it's been around.”

—  Rush Limbaugh

" Rush Limbaugh just admitted Republicans have totally abandoned a core party principle https://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/17/politics/rush-limbaugh-debt-trump/index.html", CNN (July 17, 2019)
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