Tobin Harshaw, Columnist

Congress Doesn’t Need Term Limits. Presidents Do.

Why does a hugely unpopular group of legislators think increasing the deficit, killing Obamacare and pushing kids off Medicaid will help?

June 29, 2025 at 12:00 PM UTC

By Tobin Harshaw

Tobin Harshaw is a Bloomberg Opinion senior editor and columnist on national security and military affairs. Previously, he was deputy editor at the op-ed page of the New York Times and the newspaper’s letters editor.

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