Posted on 05/30/2023 3:59:02 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
GOP Rep. Nancy Mace grew a swelling list of Republicans who are balking at the cost of the debt limit deal Speaker Kevin McCarthy cut with President Biden.
The debt limit deal includes $136 billion in budget cuts and suspends the debt ceiling until Jan. 1, 2025 - after the 2024 election.
Some of the opposed Republicans, who passed a bill last month - the Limit, Save, Grow Act - that would only raise the ceiling by $1.5 trillion, say the debt limit suspension goes beyond that is necessary and gives the Biden administration the ability to overspend for the next two years.
'Republicans got outsmarted by a President who can't find his pants. I'm voting NO on the debt ceiling debacle because playing the DC game isn't worth selling out our kids and grandkids,' Mace said in announcing her opposition to the deal Tuesday.
'This 'deal' normalizes record high spending started during the pandemic. It sets these historically high spending levels as the baseline for all future spending,' Mace sounded off on Twitter.
'After factoring in a small cut to discretionary spending over the next 2 yrs, we are still talking about ~$6T more or less in spending bc of large increases in spending elsewhere. In other words, it's a wash spending-wise.'
The deal also leaves non-defense discretionary spending flat in 2024 and allows for a one percent increase in 2025 - essentially amounting to cuts since inflation is not factored in.
Mace joins a list of at least 18 definite Republican no votes on the bill.
'After I heard about the debt ceiling deal, I was a NO. After reading the debt ceiling deal, I am absolutely NO!!' Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., wrote on Twitter.
'This 'deal' is insanity,' tweeted Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
He has a, ‘Vote of No Confidence’ from ‘We The People.’
Not that that matters one whit! *SPIT*
McCarthy is a FRAUD - just like the rest of them. :(
Yeah Erik. What are you thinking? We need Trump! He added $8 trillion to the debt limit, supported McCarthy to lead the House and Ronna McRomney to lead the RNC. He knows how to spend money and pick effective leaders. Don’t you know DeSantis fails in these presdiential qualities? Fall in line will ya. Trump’s second term will be strictly “art of the deal” stuff. He might even be able to add $16 trillion to the debt limit this time around before turning his presidency over to some Faucist bureaucrat. /s
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