WaPo editorial: Democrats' 'just-fund-everything approach' could add trillions to national debt

The Washington Post editorial board implored Congressional Democrats to take advantage of the opportunity to ambitiously push through a “historic reshaping of the federal government” while they hold power, but to pay for their reforms and not throw the federal budget "further out of whack."

"House Democrats last week took a big step toward what could be a historic reshaping of the federal government, approving a $3.5 trillion reconciliation budget resolution that would permit Democrats to press through new social programs on party-line votes," the board wrote. "Chances such as these do not come often in U.S. politics." The board claimed that Republicans did something similar when they controlled both houses of Congress four years ago and scolded them for passing deficit-increasing tax cuts.