Posted on 04/21/2023 8:36:03 AM PDT by McGruff
As a showdown looms over increasing the debt ceiling once again, President Biden warned that partisan bickering over the issue could lead the U.S. to default on its obligations to Ukraine.
"Listen, folks, it's real simple," said Biden to reporters. "We have a sacred duty to send billions to Ukraine to keep the war going. And don't forget our obligations to PBS, the 87,000 IRS agents we're hiring, and free transgender surgeries for at-risk indigenous youth. That takes money. Gotta raise the ceiling-not a joke!"
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy however, disagrees. "We will raise the debt ceiling in exchange for some symbolic spending cuts that make us look fiscally responsible," he said. "Until we get those mild cuts, which will delay the financial and economic collapse of the United States by a full 3-and-a-half seconds, we will not agree to raise the debt ceiling.
"We draw the line here."
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Obligations?
Is that a threat or a promise?
HAHAHA!
I think some are about to be had.
Love the Bee.
So the Bee has gone to a Reporting Hard News Format?
Who would have guessed?
I don’t understand why the Ukies continuing mooching money from the U.S. taxpayers. Why don’t they just take to wallets off all of the Russkis they’re killing?
I agree. I can see the younger Dims passing this around the innerwebs as news with a bunch of OMG’s.
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