For years, Democrats and Republicans have sparred over the semantics and long-term meaning of budget moves, such as whether lowering a projected spending increase can be called a "cut" and if the administration's alterations are simply papering over a deficit problem.
To bolster the case for having taken real action lately, O'Malley and others have been comparing this...
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