Posted on 05/08/2023 7:03:36 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A group of 43 Republicans in the U.S. Senate said on May 6 that they “oppose raising the debt ceiling without substantive spending and budget reforms,” coalescing around their House counterparts ahead of the White House meeting over the federal debt ceiling amid a monthslong political standoff.
“The Senate Republican conference is united behind the House Republican conference in support of spending cuts and structural budget reform as a starting point for negotiations on the debt ceiling,” the group of Republicans, led by Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), said in a letter addressed to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-Calif.).
“It is now clear that Senate Republicans aren’t going to bail out Biden and Schumer, they have to negotiate,” Lee said in the statement accompanying the letter.
“I thank my colleagues for joining my effort to emphasize this point in the clearest possible terms.”
President Joe Biden is scheduled to sit down with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on May 9 to discuss a path forward on the federal debt ceiling. But the White House has signaled that there would be little compromise from the president.
“[Biden] is not going to negotiate on the debt ceiling,” White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters on May 2.
However, the president “is willing to have a separate conversation about their spending, what they want to do with the budget,” she said.
Biden and McCarthy have been locked in a standoff over raising the debt ceiling since January. The president has called on Congress to pass a hike to the government’s borrowing limit without conditions.
McCarthy made it clear that he wouldn’t consider increasing the debt ceiling unless the president agreed to limit future spending.
“No clean debt ceiling is going to pass the House,” McCarthy said on April 26. “We can’t do that to our children.”
House Republicans passed their own solution to the debt crisis on April 26. The bill—the Limit, Save, Grow Act—would lift the federal borrowing cap by $1.5 trillion while enacting sweeping spending cuts, which Democrats have rejected.
Schumer began navigating to advance a clean, two-year extension of the debt limit in the Senate last week. He told reporters that Democrats would decide whether to put the extension up for a vote after the upcoming White House meeting.
Schumer, McConnell, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) have also been invited to the debt limit meeting at the White House on May 9.
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Paul, Kennedy and Hawley likely agreed but were not available to sign. The other three have more in common with the Democrats, as we know. Collins gets a pass due to her leftist constituency. Murkowsky and Romney, not so much.
Who are the six who refuse to join the 43?
In the Rino Room giving the democrats umm a rub down.
I agree. It is time to play chicken with senile Joe. Let him crap in pants a few times.
It is juvenile to expect pure as wind driven snow conservatives in majority in today’s America. We must work with what we have. It is better to win something than lose everything. Losing elections results in losing everything. Sorry, I do not like losing everything. These nice conservatives have zero power to change anything.
Roy Moore
Todd Akin
Ken Cuccinelli
Richard Mourdock
Christine O’Donnell
George Allen
Joe Miller
Ken Buck
Alan West
Doug Hoffman
Surprised to see Rand and also Josh Hawley on it. The others are obvious.
Losing elections results in losing everything.
The deal with elections it’s has to be an all of nothing or deal you end up with what we have Rino’s moles and take a buck dealers.
Purging must be done on a every chance before and during an election.
A half assed job is worse than no job at all.
Sorry, I do not like losing everything.
A partial win is a full loss D.C. is 92.1% democrat that’s a no win deal.
The democrats are taking no chances. Feinstein is returning on Wednesday to shore up their numbers.
I want to know where the bell the cuts are to the FBI, Ukraine, DOJ, IRS as PROMISED!!!)
Manchin is a yea, Sinema is a yea
You are right. Some of us here recall when our paper money was backed by gold at Fort Knox. These handouts like section 8a, food stamps, plus so much more have enabled so many invaders from wetbacks and many other types to enter the USA and sit on their tail ends. This website has a number of combat vets on it. Not a man I know of who served in combat supports these handouts, nor this present day USA WOKE military. This is damn sure not the USA my fellow SF men and our INDIG fought for.
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