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Defense spending levels threaten to delay Senate plan to fast-track debt ceiling bill
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Posted on 06/01/2023 2:05:31 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe

WASHINGTON — Demands by Republican senators for more defense funding threatened to delay Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's plan Thursday to fast-track a bill to raise the debt limit, as the U.S. barreled toward a June 5 deadline to avert a default.

"Nobody wants to default ... But I'm tired of having default over my head as a reason to neuter the military at a time we need it the most," Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said on the Senate floor, where he railed against a bill the House passed with broad bipartisan support late Wednesday.

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So what's the solution? As Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell explained Wednesday, senators who want to propose amendments will be allowed to do so, as long as the amendments are doomed to fail.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnbc.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: debt; defense
Ironic that grift would save the Republic....

But as to the last bit: what the (rhymes with duck)?

1 posted on 06/01/2023 2:05:31 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe
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To: Tench_Coxe
"..neuter the military at a time we need it the most," Sen. Lindsey Graham.."

The warmonger crawls out from beneath her rock.

2 posted on 06/01/2023 2:08:38 PM PDT by chief lee runamok (Anti Socialist Flâneur@Large)
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To: Tench_Coxe

And on top of defense spending there is the hundreds of millions of tax dollars flushed into the Ukraine.


3 posted on 06/01/2023 2:10:50 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: Tench_Coxe

The Dung Beetle twins want to cut military spending after spending the week at the military academies and pissing on the graduates’ legs and telling them it’s raining. Damn treasonous hos. Both of them.


4 posted on 06/01/2023 2:11:37 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (JaySix - The attack that shook the foundations of Commie Liberal "democrazy". -The Far Left "media".)
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To: Tench_Coxe
Sen. Lindsey Graham, that stalwart of Conservative values rides to save the republic...

I think my ears are bleeding ...

5 posted on 06/01/2023 2:14:23 PM PDT by 1of10 (be vigilant , be strong, be safe, be 1 of 10 .)
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To: Tench_Coxe

DOD has become fat, clumsy, redundant, employees too many civilian do-nothing bureaucrats, has too many contractors doing questionable projects, and lost sight of their mission.

Time to do some spring cleaning!! Make DOD mean and lean with a warrior mentality! Get the POLITICS out!!!


6 posted on 06/01/2023 2:15:54 PM PDT by elpadre (nd )
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you said..”mean and lean with a warrior mentality! Get the POLITICS out!!!”

As long as you don’t touch the lip stick and mascara budget ... I’m with you all the way ...


7 posted on 06/01/2023 2:20:16 PM PDT by 1of10 (be vigilant , be strong, be safe, be 1 of 10 .)
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To: Tench_Coxe

I’m tired of having default over my head as a reason to neuter the military.

He’s right democrats have zero problems of squandering money on useless items.

Illegals welfare programs....................................


8 posted on 06/01/2023 2:25:28 PM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: Tench_Coxe

Screw Lindsey and his precious Ukraine.


9 posted on 06/01/2023 2:25:50 PM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: 1of10

The corrupt, deviant/pervert/degenerate-riddled DoJ probably has a whole inner dept, called the “lip stick & mascara dept”, so it needs funding.


10 posted on 06/01/2023 2:28:49 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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Correction:

“DoJ”

Should be DoD.


11 posted on 06/01/2023 2:29:42 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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“ neuter the military at a time we need it the most,”

Did I miss the war declaration?


12 posted on 06/01/2023 2:49:02 PM PDT by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: Tench_Coxe

Plenty of fat in the defense spending linda.


13 posted on 06/01/2023 3:14:14 PM PDT by pas
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To: chief lee runamok

Linda wants to launder more money through Ukraine.


14 posted on 06/01/2023 3:48:53 PM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: Tench_Coxe

Amendments will be allowed to do so, as long as the amendments are doomed to fail.

Kill the bill they had from January to get it right and they let Biden run out the clock and gave him 4 trillion to spend.

If it comes to a grinding halt it’s when things get done the proper way.


15 posted on 06/02/2023 9:13:52 AM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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