Abby McCloskey, The Dallas Morning News, January 10, 2025

”. .. . It’s so audacious. It’s so, Trump.

To be sure, combining these priorities into one package makes strategic sense for all the reasons listed above and more. It combines two wings of the modern GOP: the establishment of Wall Street Journal Republicans (for tax reform) with the populists and Stephen Miller immigration hawks.

One could argue that it is more of the same to the extent that Congress has increasingly combined its appropriations work into unwieldy, giant omnibus packages. Why not its other work, too.

The problem is that with really big things, it becomes easy to lose track of the smaller things, the pieces and parts. The people. This is where we citizens and elected policymakers will need to pay attention, watch closely for fine print. . . . “