Posted on 05/29/2023 1:57:04 PM PDT by Libloather
resident Joe Biden admitted on Monday he may not be able to win over all members of his party after striking a debt ceiling deal with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).
Progressive Democrats, including Congressional Progressive Caucus Chairwoman Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), as well as Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Jamaal Bowman (D-NY), and others, have been critical of Biden for working with McCarthy to find a deal.
After striking a deal with McCarthy over the weekend, Biden was asked on Monday if the Congressional Progressive Caucus would get on board with the deal.
"I don't know," he told a CBS reporter when asked.
The frank assessment came after Jayapal tore into components of the debt limit framework, particularly on tightening work requirements, as "terrible policy" but declined to commit to backing or rejecting the bill before reading it. Her caucus features over 100 members.
"Speaker McCarthy and I reached a bipartisan budget agreement that will prevent the worst possible crisis - a default for the first time in our nation’s history. This deal is good news for the American people. I strongly urge Congress to pass the agreement right away," Biden tweeted Sunday.
McCarthy has boasted that Democrats have not garnered any wins from the debt limit deal, but Biden has encouraged Democrats to coalesce around it nonetheless. Internally, top Democrats have underscored how the bill is critical to averting default and that they managed to repel top GOP objectives during negotiations.
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To the usual commie suspects: Fork you!
I’m done compromising. Absolutely done!
Remember after the 2020 election and FR was divided between those that want to reform the GOP and those that wanted a new MAGA party? Guess who chose poorly.
He really thinks we are that stupid. He says the leftist will hate this when they got 90% of what they wanted so we will think the McCarthy sell out is a win for us.
This all part of the con to make conservatives think they got something. Anyone who falls for it is so gullible.
The way this plays is McCarthy is short some GOP votes and he’ll get a handful of Dems to achieve majority.
The ONLY way to stop this is an immediate challenge to the Speakership. A new Speaker controls what comes up for vote.
What exactly is the deal? What I saw looked decent. But I’ve seen so many contradictory reports on what the agreement is.
What do you think the agreement is?
The Marxist Dems want only one thing and that is control. If the bill passes, they will have their control. 87000 IRS armed Agents with access to every nook and crany of the American Banking System and individual’s intimate personal life will run roughshod over all Americans with firepower to back themselves up. They will have all authority like phone tap authority, access to every document and personal details such as medical and social activities. Marxists Socialism is here and we allowed the Dems to do it.
This sounds good to me...we can actually read it before they vote on it so we will know what is in it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tG0R0bO1V0
Lol . I kid you not . Where is Trump .
He put this Traitor in the Speaker Job .
Desantis Said to Kill the Deal Today .
Where is Trump ?
McCarthy is his Guy .
Where is Marjorie ?....
Where is Trump ??
Chip Roy and Gaetz NEED to challenge the speakership IMMEDIATELY I won’t hold my breath waiting!! I am so beyond DONE with the GOP!! This is nothing more than a dog and pony show between the parties they believe WE ARE STUPID!! If they can’t even do away with 87,000 IRS agents SCREW THEM!! We ALL KNOW those agents will be coming after the small businesses in this nation SHUTTING down what Covid didn’t!!! SCREW THE GOP!!! Not a dimes worth of difference, the lives of the fallen we honor today certainly don’t deserve the SCUM we have in government today, the SCUM we have in government today don’t give a damn about these lost lives of this nation!! Those lives are turning in their graves watching this nation arresting political prisoners, disgusting!!!
Anything Joe didn’t get was just his throwaways that he threw out there.
Hell’s bells, he probably thought he was gonna have to settle for 87 hundred new IRS Stasi at the end of it all.
Kevin’s really on his side, just like Ryan and Beohner and Hastert the pedo.
It’s safe to say more Republicans than democrats will vote nay. What happens to the speakership after this??
What happens to the speakership after this??“
It is exactly what the Texas House is. Run by the rats and the treasonous Rino’s who form a coalition. Leaving the people who the GOP the house screwed like always.
“What exactly is the deal?”
Biden can pay out the 2020 election $10,000 (and $20,000) student loan bribes as promised unless the Supreme Court says he can’t.
The 1% discretionary spending growth is based on 2023 spending instead of 2022 spending
Homeless people won’t have to work to get SNAP benefits (even though they don’t have to pay for rent, a mortgage or property taxes).
Other adults under age 51/53/55 will have to (try to get) work in order to get SNAP benefits starting in fiscal years 2023/2024/2025.
The debt issue authorization limit is waived until the next Congress in 2025. Four trillion of new debt is expected to get issued.
[Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the FDIC are on the edge - may be $5 trillion or $6 trillion.]
Student loan payments will be due again after 60 days (for the loans Joe Biden will not write down to $0, which is about half of them).
Bipartisan default sounds fine to me.
It looks like Vichy France got better terms from Germany than McCarthy got from Biden.
Just take a look at the tax rates of 1978 Britain:
below £750 - rate of 25 per cent,
otherwise below £7,000 - basic rate of 34 per cent
The next £1,000 40 per cent.
The next £1,000 45 per cent.
The next £1,000 50 per cent.
The next £1,500 55 per cent.
The next £1,500 60 per cent.
The next £2,000 65 per cent.
The next £2,500 70 per cent.
The next £5,500 75 per cent.
The remainder 83 per cent.
That £7,000 is about $100,000 in 2023 money. The 55% bracket kicked in at about $140,000 in 2023 money.
There’s a reason why Joe wants ~80,000 more IRS people, the tax rates are going to go so high that millions of Americans will try to illegally avoid getting fleeced.
“Kevin” needs to be a good RINO.
Most of California is now hopelessly Democratic.
Democratic fundraising in California can be highly concentrated to unseat Republicans that are not reliable RINOs.
I hope the leftmost Democrats will vote with the conservative Republicans to kill this thing and allow the conservatives go back to insisting on something actually effective i.e. NO raising of the debt ceiling And cutting social programs severely and setting in place a zero dollar rise in total budget as the assumed increase that has been running at several percent. With Brandon’s inflation flaming along that will reduce the real price of the government a bit. I can dream.
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