"deficit hawk" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1995 January 6, Clay Chandler, “Deficit hawk takes the catbird seat”, in The Washington Post:",
          "text": "He is renowned for his ingenuity, enthusiasm and persistence ... and has established himself as one of the legislature's most ferocious deficit hawks.",
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          "ref": "2003 April 14, Robert Novak, “The last deficit hawk”, in Townhall, archived from the original on 2021-05-09:",
          "text": "Such a lethal crossfire is the lot of a dying political breed: the deficit hawk, who obsesses on an accounting number as the lodestar of economic well-being.",
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          "ref": "2013 February 25, Kevin Drum, Mother Jones:",
          "text": "DC reporters and columnists are endlessly willing to pretend that someone whose only real-world devotion is to cutting social welfare spending is a “deficit hawk.”",
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          "ref": "2020 January 10, Eric Boehm, Reason:",
          "text": "Some of them—like former deficit hawk Mick Mulvaney and former House Speaker Paul Ryan, who made his name in Congress as the GOP's budget-maker—deserve special ignominy for abandoning their fiscal conservatism when it was most needed.",
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        "A person, especially one in power, who emphasizes keeping government budgets under control, derogatory when such actions are seen as predatory or entail harsh fiscal discipline or austerity."
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        "(politics, slang, sometimes derogatory) A person, especially one in power, who emphasizes keeping government budgets under control, derogatory when such actions are seen as predatory or entail harsh fiscal discipline or austerity."
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        },
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