Posted on 03/10/2023 9:20:30 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON — A group of ultraconservative House Republicans on Friday sketched out their demands to tackle the debt ceiling, pushing to repeal much of President Joe Biden's signature Inflation Reduction Act and roll back the latest government funding deal.
The Freedom Caucus, chaired by Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., proposed to nix Biden’s $400 billion in student debt relief, rescind unspent Covid-19 funds, cut the climate change funding and $80 billion for added I.R.S. enforcement under the Inflation Reduction Act and to cap discretionary spending at fiscal 2022 levels for a decade.
Perry estimated that would save about $3 trillion over a decade.
"This is extreme on steroids. This would slash and burn our economy," Rep. Brendan Boyle, D-Pa., the ranking member of the Budget Committee, said of the Freedom Caucus proposal. "It shows just how remarkably unserious and extreme their agenda is."
White House spokesman Andrew Bates shot back at the Freedom Caucus Friday, saying that the House GOP's only budget proposal would kill manufacturing jobs enabled by the Inflation Reduction Act and grow the deficit "by helping the super wealthy and big corporations break the law and cheat on their taxes."
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Start with the 87k IRS agents. Then the FBI.
I wonder what chance all of that has of passing both chambers and being signed by Slow Joe? My guess is the odds are pretty slim.
Yes.
Once you have actually made a demand, if you give it up you are a coward. Maybe a bought coward, but still.
Conservatives should just let the SCOTUS nix the student loan thing without getting their hands dirty... and focus on other targets.
Agree, especially for the new FBI building. Until the FBI corrupt leader Wray starts accepting Congressional oversight, he should have new building zeroed out and his budget cut significantly.
That’s a start, but what’s Biden’s definition of cuts? Is that a cut of the increase? Also, why not cut defense spending? There’s a boat load of crap the military spends money on that has zero to do with killing and breaking things.
Republicans need to get on the same page. The debt ceiling has no ceiling if it is repeatedly increased. These eff’n RINO’s (Perry is not one of them and he’s my congresscritter) need to stop insulting the intelligence of their voters.
The only acceptable budget to me is one that slashes spending and shutters vast portions of the federal government so that we actually have a revenue surplus to start paying down the debt, not increase the debt. That starts now. It cannot be postponed into the future because it will never happen. I want to see as many lazy ass government employees in the unemployment line as possible. That guarantees not only fiscal responsibility, it ensures freedom.
The choice is clear. It’s them or us. If government scum bag employees keep their jobs then people in the private sector will lose their jobs. Those private sector workers actually build things and deliver valuable services. They pay the bills. Government employees do nothing more than suck from teat of the productive. They are the real enemy of America.
There is a difference in the value of people and it is seen by what the accomplish in life. A ditch digger is better than and more valuable than the vast majority of government employees. Note: I make this personal and concrete. Abstract and nebulous notions of government spending has gotten us to where we are now.
Republicans get very lippy when they know they are powerless to do anything. They become meek as lambs when given actual power.
“Better not waste all of the political capital and good will from the voters.”
That's a drop in the proverbial bucket. CUT MORE!!!
Whatta ‘bout the alleged 46,000 new Fed employees hired in Feb. 2023?
ultra conservative = non marxist.
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