Posted on 05/18/2025 1:30:23 PM PDT by RandFan
Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) tore into House Republicans over sinking a key committee vote that would help advance President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” calling it a “real misstep.”
“The stock market seems like it is moving up. Now, if Congress can start doing the things that President Trump’s doing, it would even help us more. Today was a real misstep on the Republicans’ part, in the budget side, that four of them looked out for themselves instead of moving the bill along, reconciliation,” McCarthy said during an appearance on John Catsimatidis’s radio show, “Cats Roundtable” on WABC 770 AM.
Five House GOP fiscal hawks — Reps. Chip Roy (Texas), Ralph Norman (S.C.), Josh Brecheen (Okla.), Andrew Clyde (Ga.) and Lloyd Smucker (Pa.) — voted against advancing the measure that encompasses Trump’s legislative agenda on Friday. The vote was 16-21.
“To be clear — I fully support the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB). My vote today in the Budget Committee is a procedural requirement to preserve the committee’s opportunity to reconsider the motion to advance OBBB,” Smucker said Friday after the vote on the social platform X.
Fiscal hawks have argued that the bill’s cuts to Medicaid are insufficient and that reforms should come into effect sooner, while more moderate Republicans are looking for an increase in the state and local tax (SALT) deduction cap.
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To Kevin:
“former”
So be quiet now.
Not to say I don’t want the bill to pass.
I do.
Just think the past types should leave it to the current ones.
You can bet that what’s going on behind the scenes is negotiating over protecting pork from DOGE. The reason for a five hundred-thousand-dollar study to determine if snails are gay is its pork paying off somebody for something. And payoff pork is exactly what DOGE is looking for. It gets into a bill because the last guy to sign on gets whatever he wants, no matter how crazy it sounds when you say it out loud.
Seems like the kettle calling the pot black
He didn’t talk like this when it mattered.
Yawn...
GOP just doing what it has, historically, done for 60 years as masters of the circle jerk...
The Communist Party knows that these couple of years of drought (theirs) will, probably, come roaring to a stop in 2026 and beyond...
Vengeance, theirs, will be swift and permanent...
The GOP is the master of pissing on your leg, then telling you it’s raining.
Like he’d have got it through.
He created this mess.
And the “5 fiscal hawks” are BS artists.
How many of them ever voted against a CR or Omnibus bills that didn’t already have enough votes to pass?
I bet RINO Kevin doesn’t even know what’s in the Bill.
Where are the IMMEDIATE Spending Cuts Kevin?
I can imagine how many relatives of Congress members “work” for an NGO.
Kev would have only done worse.
He needs to sit down and be quiet.
The Communists took over the Democratic Party with Obama's election.
Before Obama, you had working class voters, union bosses, other factions who weren't Communist.
There have been no cuts so it should not pass. Why is COVID Relief and Inflation Reduction Act still in there? 86 it.
That should cover a nice all expenses paid summer internship for some Congresscritter's daughter at some prestigious academic institution in a city where she can have a really good time.
It doesn’t matter who voted no. It doesn’t matter what they voted for in the past.
Only mathematics matters and this bill grows the deficit.
The End.
Lol
This Dem plant let Nancy P and her second in charge stay in the house speakers plush suites while he groveled in other quarters .
while speaker .
That tells us who was in charge during his nightmare reign .
This Dem operative has some real nerve stating anything .
Who cares what that has been says.
I remember during the 1940s and 1950s when the Democrats were outstanding patriots, although their tendency for government control, left over from the FDR years, found the Democrats with both strong liberal and strong conservative factions...
During the late 1970s, I (as a right-wing Korean War Marine veteran) had the pleasure of playing chess with Adlai Stevenson in Washington Square a couple of times... In those days, wide-ranging political discussions were available without animosities and vitriol...
It was the 1960s when things began to unravel and communist infiltration of the younger party elements began to accelerate...
By the end of the 1970s they began full-time infiltration of the federal bureaucracy, the Nation's education system, and the use of environmentalism as a weapon, and the party went straight into the radical leftist camp...
The Clintons set the country up, and Bush-Obama delivered the final blow to the remains of the Constitutional Republic...
Biden was just the final & logical product...
Donald Trump is the Nation's final gasp, unless he is successful...
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