Some of Washington's deficit hawks say Trump's tax cuts could lead to skyrocketing debt

Ty Wright/Getty Images A few of the nation’s most prominent deficit hawks made their pitch to Republican President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday to rearrange his budget and economic priorities and help contain an exploding long-term debt. But trying to convince the billionaire New York real estate businessman to curb his $9.5 trillion tax cut proposal, a $1 trillion infrastructure spending binge, a defense buildup and a hands-off posture on Social Security reform may well be mission impossibl...