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With all these changes, the annual gap between spending and revenue in 2019 is projected to eclipse $1.1 trillion, up from $439 billion in 2015….The debt binge caps off a major reversal for the Republican Party, which has been swept up by President Trump’s demands for more spending and tax cuts at a time when the public seems to care less about debt than it has in years.

Conservative lawmakers and think tanks say the Republican-led Congress is ditching its commitment to smaller government and less spending by signing off on a new, two-year spending bill that would boost spending by $300 billion, and usher in a return to $1 trillion annual budget deficits.

Republican leaders said Wednesday they support the deal as a way to ensure more defense spending, and note it would also create a bipartisan committee that will try to recommend new budgeting reforms. The deal envisions a year-long suspension of the debt ceiling, which should pass this week while Congress spends a few more weeks writing legislation to enact other parts of the spending deal.

But in the short term all conservatives see is a huge boost in spending that will break the budget caps House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., helped enact just a few years ago.

It's estimated to add $300 billion through fiscal year 2019, something the conservative House Freedom Caucus said is unacceptable.

“The House Freedom Caucus opposes the deal to raise spending caps on discretionary spending by nearly $300 billion over two years," the group said late Wednesday. "We support funding for our military, but growing the size of government by 13 percent adds to the swamp instead of draining it."

"This is not what the American people sent us here to do," the group added.

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