Charlie Kirk
@charliekirk11
The blueprint:
Pressure and demonize right wing companies to make them either go bankrupt or become one of your own
Look at Chick-fil-A
A decade ago the left HATED Chick-fil-A, they wanted to crush them
Now, Chick-fil-A is bragging about DEI statements and groveling for New York Times support
If they can’t break you, they make you join them. This is how they operate.
4:27 PM · May 30, 2023
I didn’t know that about Ckick-fil-A.
Debt Ceiling Emerges as Potential Trump-DeSantis Battle Ground
DeSantis and his allies say the deal, which was announced late Saturday, does little to address the nation’s debt crisis. DeSantis, in a Monday interview with Fox News, called it “wholly inadequate” and said that “after this deal our country will still be careening toward bankruptcy.” Trump, who initially urged Republicans to use the threat of default as a bargaining chip, has been uncharacteristically silent on the deal. But his allies have praised the deal as a way to cut Democratic spending initiatives.
Republicans notched modest victories with the debt ceiling agreement, which will cap federal spending next year and slow spending growth through 2025 in exchange for a two-year debt ceiling hike. The bill would also cut IRS funding and impose minor adjustments to work requirements for welfare. Those provisions were far from House Republicans’ initial demands, which included a decade of spending caps, a complete rollback of the Inflation Reduction Act’s IRS funding boost, and stringent work requirements for social assistance programs.
But some of Trump’s most outspoken congressional boosters, including Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R., Ga.) and Elise Stefanik (R., N.Y.), applauded it as evidence that Republicans have kept their promise to rein in Democratic spending. Greene and others took the view that future budget negotiations will provide opportunities to shrink the federal budget.
Other political operatives in the former president’s circle share their assessment. Arthur Schwartz, a Republican political consultant who served as an adviser to Donald Trump Jr., took to Twitter to call Rep. Dan Bishop (R., N.C.), a vocal critic of the deal, a “professional complainer.” Former senior Trump administration official Stephen Miller shared defenses of the deal on the platform as well.
DeSantis’s allies struck a different tone. No other House Republican has emerged as a more forceful critic of the compromise than Rep. Chip Roy (R., Texas), who called it a “turd sandwich” on Sunday. Roy, who was the first member of Congress to endorse DeSantis in March before the Florida governor announced his candidacy, vowed to fight its passage in the House.
Former vice president Mike Pence also slammed the debt ceiling compromise, saying in a Tuesday statement that it “uses Washington smoke and mirror games to make small reforms while weakening our military at a time of increasing threats from foreign adversaries.” Pence, who is thought the be considering a 2024 presidential run, said the bill places “the burden of debt onto the backs of our grandchildren.”
A spokesman for DeSantis declined to comment. The Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment.
There is also evidence of grassroots discontent over the debt ceiling bill, something the DeSantis campaign hopes to capitalize on as their candidate trails in the polls. Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts blasted it Monday evening as a missed opportunity for Republicans.
https://freebeacon.com/elections/debt-ceiling-emerges-as-potential-trump-desantis-battle-ground/