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The Economy Needs an Injection From Congress, Stat
The patient is about to flatline.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican from Kentucky, left, speaks with Senator Lamar Alexander, a Republican from Tennessee.
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The U.S. economy is a relapsing patient about to flatline, and the doctors are still bickering over what medicine to give it.