Posted on 12/18/2024 7:22:05 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
A U.S. senator told Breitbart News on Wednesday evening that President-elect Donald Trump’s push to have the debt ceiling increased as part of a government funding deal this week “makes sense” from Trump’s perspective but warned it is unlikely Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer would agree to such a push.
The senator, who asked for anonymity to discuss the very fluid situation on Capitol Hill just days before a government funding deadline on Friday, said Schumer only has one real piece of “leverage” over Trump next year, and that leverage is the debt ceiling deadline.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Shut dn the gov’t. Newt shut it down several times and got a balanced budget.
He’s a traitor to America. Debt is being used to defeat America. He might be planning on being dead before it all comes together, but I don’t think he’s planning on having a final judgement in the end.
Balanced? Shut it down and put their fingers on the scales. They have frankly bankrupted our country. None of the money they appropriate can be accounted for. There are a lot of good people in congress.....a lot of them are bound up and tied down with special interest money. The PACS and political donations MUST (MUSK) be dealt with. These elected folks need to know how to run with the ball when they have it in their hands.
Schmuckie’s jomama was against abortion?
Better yet, do not raise the debt ceiling and then cut expenditures, including entitlements, to match income. Can’t spend the money if you don’t have it.
Trump had six weeks to request a debt ceiling increase. He waited until the bill was done and Elon tweeted his displeasure? Where was trump in the negotiations?
So what??? How long can we continue thus crap? CUT SPENDING!!! IT CAN BE DONE BUT THEY DO NOT WANT TO
THE BUDGET COULD BE BALANED TOMORROW BUT CONGRESS WON’T DO IT.
Schuck needs to be careful.
Trump knows the laundering and surrounded himself with power that knows as well.
Trump stated his position.
Are you aware he is not President yet?
Maybe Dementia Joe should weigh in.
Oh wait........
Hey, Chuck, stay away from marble stairs.
Regarding shutdowns, you must remember several things:And THAT's why Johnson is in the predicament that he's in right now.
- Mitch McConnell has vowed to NEVER allow a government shutdown. The Senate is his Preciousssssss, and he would do anything to keep a government shutdown from happening.
- See: 8/7/2022 - Trump says McConnell ‘got played like a fiddle’ on Democrats spending bill
Former President Trump laid into Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Sunday after Senate Democrats passed their long-awaited health care, tax and climate package.“Mitch McConnell got played like a fiddle with the vote today by the Senate Democrats,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
“First he gave them the fake Infrastructure Bill, then Guns, never used the Debt Ceiling for negotiating purposes (gave it away for NOTHING!), and now this,” Trump said. “Mitch doesn’t have a clue – he is sooo bad for the Republican Party!”
- See: 7/9/2022 - ‘We Got Our Ass Kicked’: John Kennedy Laments Senate Republican Loss to Democrats on CHIPS, Reconciliation
Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) said on Thursday that Senate Republicans got tricked into passing a semiconductor bill after believing that a Democrat reconciliation bill was dead.While Republicans were split on the merits of the legislation, most Republicans, including House Republican leadership, did not want to pass the CHIPS legislation if Democrats were to pursue a reconciliation bill to pass climate change, Obamacare, and other leftist priorities.
The same day that the Senate passed the CHIPS bill, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) announced a deal on the Inflation Reduction Act, a bill that would aim to reduce the deficit, raise taxes, and boost climate change and Obamacare spending.
Announcing the deal immediately after Senate Republicans backed the CHIPS bill left many GOP lawmakers with egg on their faces.
"We got our ass kicked. It’s just that simple. Looks to me like we got rinky-doo’d. That’s a Louisiana word for 'screwed.' And we got our ass kicked. That’s the way my people back home see it," Kennedy said...
McConnell also lost to Schumer on a debt ceiling fight in 2021, which led to a deal to temporarily create a carveout for the legislative filibuster. One former senior GOP aide said the deal was to save McConnell’s "ego."
- Knowing #1, Pelosi and Schumer always scheme to stall Republicans in the House and Senate in order to create debt ceiling crises because they know that McConnell is the weak link in that chain.
I don't know why McCarthy took so long in the House to get his spending bills worked out before slamming his side with it as the debt ceiling crisis loomed. Perhaps he was counting on Pelosi's promise to "always stand by him?" Perhaps he didn't see how he was being manipulated into wasting time over the summer in order to create the debt ceiling crisis that Democrats would then exploit in the Senate?
- Can't you see how Johnson is being manipulated into the same trap by Democrats? They drag out and delay in the House until deadlines loom, and then rely on McConnell in the Senate to react as he's been conditioned to. That's why McConnell was pressuring Johnson to comply with the Senate-side bill over Johnson's House bill.
- Can't you see how things might be different if our side coordinated between the two chambers, compared notes, told each other what the Democrats are doing on their side of the aisle in their respective chambers?
Because you know that's what Pelosi and Schumer are doing. It's why our side is always caught by surprise -- because our side in the Senate thinks the House is beneath them. That's why our side thinks it has to be the Senate bill that "fixes" what the peons in the House did.
Look up the Reconciliation procedure to see why Democrats push so hard for single omnibus bills.
Democrats can't control the vote on separate budget bills from the House because they can't get enough votes for cloture in the Senate. To get around that, they force everything into single omnibus bills that they can push through the reconciliation process that only requires a simple majority in the Senate to pass, but they can only do it once a year per revenue, spending, and debt ceiling bill.
The longer that Senate Democrats fail to act on House bills, the shorter the time becomes to pass a budget or hit the debt ceiling. Democrats and the LAAP-dog media always blame Republicans for "shutting down the government" saying that Republicans won't send them something that will pass in the Senate.
This puts pressure on the House to either send the Senate what Democrats want, or Democrats will use reconciliation to amend one massive omnibus spending bill via reconciliation and send it back to the House, again blaming them for a government shutdown if they don't pass the Senate bill.
The limit of one spending, one revenue, and one debt ceiling bill in the Senate makes the Democrats strategize how to use this streamlined process for maximum impact for Democrats. That's where the brinksmanship comes in. They can take separate revenue bills from the House and amend them together with Democrat pet budget items into one massive bill that only requires a simple majority in the Senate to pass, and then force the House to accept the Democrat bill or shut down the government (or Ukraine will die, or the Israeli hostages will dies...).
See this article from earlier today: Chuck Schumer brags to Senators about Mike Johnson giving Dems everything they wanted on Ukraine, foreign aid: report
Excerpt:
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer bragged on the Senate floor on Wednesday about how House Speaker Mike Johnson gave into Democratic demands in foreign aid packages.Human Events' Jack Posobiec said he heard from a senior Republican official that Schumer "was just on the Senate floor bragging to other members about Speaker Johnson giving Democrats everything they wanted in the Ukraine and foreign aid packages."
Keep in mind that the Democrats have NOT used their 2024 debt ceiling reconciliation bill yet, and the clock is ticking until January 3 when Republicans take over the Senate. Of course Schumer doesn't want the debt ceiling raised for 2025, because he'd lose the one sledgehammer that he's been so effective at using.
And he almost got Johnson to fall for it again, too, until Vivek, Elon, and President Trump stepped in to stop it.
-PJ
He stopped the bill. Elon did I mean. They are in charge. Biden hasn’t even mentioned the word CR.
Of course Biden didn’t mention it.
You do understand he is in left field, and not playing it very well?
No?
One more month of him. I do not want him to step down and let Kamala have a bit of adoration from the media being the first black President even if only a month. Let him slobber in the corner as he’s done for practically 4 years.
OK.
And go away.
I agree.
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