Force the issue, Senator. This is ridiculous.
but does it close the border......?
The cuts need to be in the neighborhood of $1.5 trillion per year to satisfy me.
This, and move to vacate the speaker of the House. That was the deal when MTG and others begged for McCarthy to become speaker.
The House Republican bill has already been written and passed.
Those with the ‘gold’ make the rules.
Even Karl Marx thought welfare recipients should work to help themselves if they could work.
“Paul, therefore, said he will propose an amendment to the so-called “Fiscal Responsibility Act” that would raise the debt ceiling only $500 billion in order to return to the negotiating table.”
The Democrats have no desire for anything except an ever-larger pile of IOUs so they can buy their way into absolute power.
The Senate had over five months to write its own bill with some level of spending cuts and it made no effort to do so.
Joe Biden refused to negotiate until the 11th hour, then he tenders phantom spending cuts.
The only offer should be the Republican bill already passed, or the welfare money might disappear (or be paid in dribs and drabs) for 18 months.
About 70% of stock market holdings by value are in four Democratic states: California, New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
About 70% of the stock market holdings by value are held by Democrats or held in trust for Democrats via public pension funds.
Apple is probably 90% held by Democrats or held in trust for Democrats via public pension funds.
Republicans need worry about the stock market far less than Democrats.
If Mrs. Average Grandmother gets another $500 in interest income for a year it will not be the end of the world. That $500 will counter-balance the lower interest rates (and granny income) reduced federal spending and borrowing will result in long-term.
There are hostile parties trying to spend more. The press, the Dems, Rinos, the unelected alphabet agencies, crony business.
Conservatives are certainly defending the Alamo here.
Rand Paul 2024