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This week, Ron Steslow and  Izabella Kaminska (Founder and Editor at The Blind Spot and Senior Finance Editor at Politico Europe) discuss Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill and why the controversy over debt and deficits has come to the forefront. 

Then, in Politicology+ they discuss what we can learn from historical models of what happens when great powers are tested, and where we might be heading.

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