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McConnell Makes It Clear—No Debt Ceiling Deal in Senate 'Without Substantive Spending' Cuts
Red State ^ | 05/06/2023 | Becca Lower

Posted on 05/06/2023 8:13:12 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 05/06/2023 8:13:12 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Is this a different species of turtle?


2 posted on 05/06/2023 8:19:14 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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What happens when Ukraine asks for $$$

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3 posted on 05/06/2023 8:20:37 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Statute of Limitations is going to elapse on Hunter Biden )
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To: crusty old prospector

I’m hoping they aren’t that stupid to trust an informal or hand shake deal, but I know they are that stupid.


4 posted on 05/06/2023 8:21:56 PM PDT by abbastanza
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To: crusty old prospector

Its just a turtle that’s going to wave a piece of paper like Neville Chamberlain once did except this time it will be called

“spending cuts in our time”

instead of:

“peace in our time”.


5 posted on 05/06/2023 8:21:57 PM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: SeekAndFind

Sure, they’ll cut funding for the border, for airline security, for air traffic control, and for the military food budget. No problem.


6 posted on 05/06/2023 8:23:22 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: SeekAndFind

A “handshake” with the Biden administration!?!?!? NO ONE would take that deal …


7 posted on 05/06/2023 8:31:11 PM PDT by 11th_VA (XX < > XY)
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“”Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), As such, we will not be voting for cloture on any bill that raises the debt ceiling without substantive spending and budget reforms.”

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Money. For. The. Wall.

Lots of money.

The progs will screech.

Time to start hitting them in their every money grab.

Want $$$ for the fags?

Money. For. The. Wall.

Want $$$ for the climate hoax?

Money. For. The. Wall.

EVs? Wall.

Ukraine? Wall.

Bailout banks? Wall.

Illegals? Wall.

Pension funds? Wall.

EVERYTHING.

No letup.

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8 posted on 05/06/2023 8:54:55 PM PDT by TLI (ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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McConnell Makes It Clear—No Debt Ceiling Deal in Senate 'Without Substantive Spending' Cuts

Every once in a while the turtle surprises his critics. This might be one of those times but then again the proof is in the details. Precisely, what/where would be the cuts he supports.

9 posted on 05/06/2023 10:38:32 PM PDT by JesusIsLord
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To: SeekAndFind

The kind of government we have morphed into, I don’t want funded AT ALL.


10 posted on 05/06/2023 10:47:52 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: JesusIsLord

The Turtle has noticed the support McCarthy has received from his caucus, and the public at large. He’s simply jumping on the bandwagon...not that I’m complaining.


11 posted on 05/06/2023 11:17:57 PM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: Night Hides Not

I want the budget for the IRS and the FBI SLASHED!!!


12 posted on 05/06/2023 11:26:41 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: SeekAndFind

Yeah, becasue Turtle has been such a staunch warrier for spending restraint...(sarc/off).


13 posted on 05/07/2023 3:16:36 AM PDT by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. The Dhimmicraps are ALL Traitors. All of them.)
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Did he hisssss when he said ssssssspending?
14 posted on 05/07/2023 3:25:08 AM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The Republicans need to produce a plan about what gets funded when a deal is not reached. Top of the list should be debt interest payments.


15 posted on 05/07/2023 4:27:09 AM PDT by Doctor Congo
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To: SeekAndFind

Since WWII the US has experienced a number of recessions, and some of them pretty severe. In that time Washington has experienced none and has grown to the extent it has become a malignancy so large it threatens the very existence of our nation. It’s well past time for emergency surgery to greatly reduce the size and scope of our national government, but alas, it will not happen because Washington is only concerned about Washington. Americans need to remember government doesn’t create wealth, it consumes it. Once it consumes beyond a certain point, there’s nothing anyone can do to stop the slide to economic oblivion.


16 posted on 05/07/2023 4:59:40 AM PDT by Rlsau1
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BEFORE Biden hired 87,000 IRS agents/employees . . .

04/14/2019 - The Hill

EXCERPTS:

The sheer size of our government workforce is an alarming problem

After eight years of reckless expansion of the federal workforce under Barack Obama, Donald Trump vowed to downsize the wildly growing bureaucracy of Washington. In 2016, he promised to “cut so much your head will spin.” However, during the first two years of his presidency, there has been no significant effort to reduce the bloated federal payrolls. In fact, the federal government is the largest employer in the nation.

Walmart, which has a presence in communities of all shapes and sizes, is the largest private employer in the nation with 1.5 million workers.

Yet the number of Americans who rely on the corporate giant for their livelihoods is dwarfed by the number who rely on the federal government for their paychecks.

The federal government employs nearly 9.1 million workers, comprising nearly 6 percent of total employment in the United States.

The figure includes nearly 2.1 million federal employees, 4.1 million contract employees, 1.2 million grant employees, 1.3 million active duty military personnel, and more than 500,000 postal service employees.


17 posted on 05/07/2023 5:05:47 AM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: SeekAndFind

McConnell found a spine?

Can’t be his spine - he has none. Still, he should use this one for all its worth.

There should be no debt - the government should live within its means like everyone else. Maybe get rid of welfare and quit sending money and weapons to Ukraine and other places in the world.

Also, regarding the border, 230 grains of lead is much cheaper than a cell phone and EBT card.


18 posted on 05/07/2023 5:10:27 AM PDT by meyer (FBI = KGB for the DNC; IRS = Gestapo)
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To: SeekAndFind

Translated to American English this means an agreement to raise the debt ceiling is coming forthwith.


19 posted on 05/07/2023 5:14:50 AM PDT by Tupelo (A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has signed onto a letter stating he and more than 40 members of the Senate GOP conference will not back “any bill that raises the debt ceiling without substantive spending and budget reforms,” according to sources.”

I don’t believe anything coming out of McConnell’s mouth, even the “ands” and “thes.”


20 posted on 05/07/2023 5:53:22 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (“Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys” P.J. O’Rourke)
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