Posted on 01/23/2025 11:24:49 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Thursday rejected the idea of combining California wildfire aid with a debt ceiling hike, saying Democrats would oppose such a package if Republicans bring it to the floor.
“It’s a nonstarter,” Jeffries said during a press briefing in the Capitol.
The pushback could complicate the plans of Republican leaders in both chambers, who are reportedly weighing a strategy to craft a massive legislative package combining an extension of government spending — which is scheduled to expire March 14 — with an increase in the debt limit, aid for wildfire victims and border security funding.
GOP leaders had initially wanted to include the debt ceiling hike in an even larger package of tax cuts, immigration reforms and changes to energy policy — priorities of the new Trump administration that they’re hoping to enact through a procedural gambit, known as reconciliation, that doesn’t require Democratic buy-in.
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SO Jeffries wants to deny CA aid for the wildfires, got it.
Big talker. Let’s see how many dems will hold that line and give up aid. It’s a game of chi ken and this is posturing.
Stuff it, dollar store Obama.
What is a debt ceiling if you just ignore it all the time? It’s a bad joke. As it is now, Congress passes almost any and all spending measures because they feel it will help get them reelected. So, they kick the can down the road to a point where our kids finally pay the piper or the US goes supernova and collapses under its own debt weight.
Title correction: Anti-Democracy Party Zealot Jeffries says ....
ANYTHING that tries to limit spending will be a non-starter for Dems.
If Biden was still president, he’d designate Los Angeles a sacred Indian hunting ground National Park.
Hakeem is jealous.
Why should taxpayers in responsible states have to pay for the expected results of irresponsible management in other states?
hakeem is a non starter.
Another “hate America” creature.
Task #1) Vote on a bill to provide assistance to hurricane victims in North Carolina. A clean bill. Just money to help them recover.
Task #2) Vote a bill to provide assistance to CA for the wildfires. Marry this topic with a debt limit in the same bill. If the Democrats want to screw over CA residents and deny them any financial support at all, that’s on them. Just put up some billboards in Los Angeles so that everyone knows the Democrats don’t care about people.
The rest of the country doesn’t owe California a thing for its self-infliced tragedy. Condition any aid on enforceable reform.
What is a debt ceiling if you just ignore it all the time?
Ok New Yorker, vote against it.
Gav has problem if he can’t get money for California
Wait so all of you fine ‘mericans folks actually want the debt limit to get raised?
Sure money for victims is good and all but you Freeper folks actually want to continue the reckless spending to continue because Trump says it’s good?
500 Billion for AI, billions for Warp speed 2.0, gifts to business as usual?
Like he could stop it. 🙄
balance the budget... do your job.
or start apportioning the overages to the states, proportionately.
Too bad for you that you have zero say in the matter. Go play with Pelousi and Harris, ya putz.
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