Whoever wins 2024 the election will have a thankless task ahead of them: figuring out a way to navigate the extension of a tax cut bill that no one is likely to be willing to throw out the window wholesale while also keeping in mind the looming — and growing — national debt crisis on the horizon. That job is difficult enough for the most detached of policy wonks, but whoever is president this time next year will also need to find a way to get Congress, special interests and the voting public rowing in the same direction. Unfortunately, an understanding of the herculean nature of this responsibility was nowhere on display in this most recent of presidential debates.
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