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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We all knew that there would be a “deal” to raise the debt limit. What we still don’t know is if this “deal” will cost Kevin McCarthy the speakership.
It looks like at least 10 Republican House members will vote against this bill. The problem is at least 50 Democrat members will vote for this bill. This bill will pass the House.
So as it turns out, isn’t electing him Speaker “a rather extravagant” means of protecting one seat in SoCal? In hindsight, mind you.
H/T WFB
And our irs loving rinos....
Oh, I suspect the progressives will go for it. No matter how McCarthy tries to spin the deal, it not a win for conservatives. Democrats have nothing to complain about.
I suspect to hear a change in the narrative soon. Suddenly, the media will come out with headlines such as “How Biden Convinced McCarthy to Give the Democrats What they Wanted” and the article will talk about Biden’s great negotiating skills.
If only Republicans had been that after the Contract With America.
But even then the spendthrift quickly wrecked any chance of real resistance to the Creeping Progressive Doom.
Consider: https://reason.com/1998/07/01/not-so-radical-republicans/
There is no chance the US will default on their loans since the interest on the loans is constitutionally mandated to be paid first. Biden is spreading misinformation, as usual. This needs to be reported to the authorities.
Please explain how a third party would benefit conservatives wining elections.
Hiding
Kev is another in a long long line of bad trump picks.
That’s the main problem with negotiations..
Democrats go for the moon.
Republicans go for what they want.
Democrats end up with what they want. Republicans get very little of what they want.
That’s one of the reasons he should never have been speaker
You want leaders from solid districts.
Biden responded to Lindsey Graham’s call to spend MORE MONEY and said, essentially, this is the minimum, we can spend more money, just bring a separate bill for more.
Good. I hope they don’t.
For communists, millions dying or being murdered by their policies and practices is a feature, not a bug.
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