Federal policies too often lead to dysfunction

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Federal programs won't go away
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Here’s a bizarre tag team for you: liberal Democrat Tammy Baldwin, the Madison darling of the left-wing, teaming up with uber-conservative North Woods Trump supporter Sean Duffy to take down an administration plan to ax a rural job training program.

U.S. Sen. Baldwin and then-Congressman Duffy were the state’s political odd couple. Poles apart ideologically, the two found common ground in the one area on which all politicians seem to close ranks: federally funded jobs for voters back home.

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** Legislators in lockstep
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Party leaders are much more successful than they used to be keeping members in lockstep — exactly the scenario feared by John Adams.

“There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution,” the Founding Father wrote in a letter ([link removed]) to Jonathan Jackson in October 1780.
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Podcast: Bridges to Nowhere, The Grateful Dead, and the Federal Budget
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Badger Institute President Mike Nichols was recently a guest on The Heritage Foundation podcast “Heritage Explains” discussing federal grant boondoggles such as Milwaukee's $128 million streetcar to nowhere.

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