"the buck stops here" meaning in English

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          "text": "1994 January 25, William J. Clinton, State of the Union Address, 2004 Gutenberg eBook,\nIf you will stick with this plan, we will post three consecutive years of declining deficits for the first time since Harry Truman lived in the White House. And once again, the buck stops here."
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          "word": "la responsabilité commence ici"
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