Oh, So That's Who Americans Will Blame for a Debt Default

Townhall ^ | 05/25/2023 | Spencer Brown

[SeekAndFind]

President Joe Biden has been seemingly unable to catch a break as he and the White House scramble to show competence and strength amid debt ceiling negotiations with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) who has outmaneuvered Democrats at what seems to be every turn. This week, amid contradictory and increasingly desperate White House press briefings, more bad news for Biden emerged in the form of a new poll showing more Americans would blame Biden for a default than they would McCarthy or congressional Republicans. 

The survey, conducted and released by Fox News with direction from Beacon Research and Shaw and Company Research showed how Biden has lost the messaging battle on the debt limit. 

When it comes to Biden's initial position that no spending cuts be included in a bill increasing the debt ceiling — one that saw the president waste more than two months refusing to engage in talks with Speaker McCarthy — Americans overwhelmingly stand against Biden. 

According to the Fox News Poll, 57 percent of Americans say the debt limit should only be increased if spending cuts are included. Just 27 percent said the debt ceiling should be lifted without additional requirements and 13 percent said the debt limit should not be increased and the U.S. should default on its debt. 

If, in fact, the United States defaults on its debt before a deal can be reached to raise the debt ceiling — bearing in mind that House Republicans already passed a bill to raise the debt ceiling and avoid default — more Americans would blame President Biden than Republicans in Congress by a margin of 47 percent to 44 percent. Eight percent of Americans said they would blame both if a default takes place. 

Notably, the lay of the land in this debt ceiling fight is markedly different from a previous fight. In 2011, a Fox News survey asking Americans whether they'd blame then-President Obama or congressional Republicans for a default, 47 percent said they'd blame the GOP while 32 percent said Obama would bear the blame.

That means President Biden and the White House — despite having the mainstream media, most big tech companies, and most of America's cultural institutions on their side — has managed to lose the narrative advantage they hoped to have on the debt ceiling issue. It's gotten so desperate inside the West Wing that Biden aides have been whining about the mainstream media's alleged failure to "frame" the debt limit situation in a way that benefits the president.

In continuing bad news for Biden as he looks toward 2024, Fox News' poll also found that 44 percent of Americans view the president as "corrupt," 53 percent say he "doesn't care" about Americans, and 57 percent say he is not "honest and trustworthy." When it comes to his job in general, 59 percent of Americans say Biden lacks the "judgment to serve as president effectively" and 60 percent believe Biden does not have "the mental soundness" to be commander in chief.

[Vermont Lt]

I bet most Americans won’t notice.

[Chgogal]

Here is a list of agencies and departments:
https://www.usa.gov/agency-index

As far as I am concerned 95% of these entities could be shut down and most Americans wouldn’t be affected.

[cableguymn]

hope they leave um closed forever.

[noiseman]

Step 1 should be to cut all federal spending on the things that most people aren’t even aware exist, but which are clearly indefensible. In other words, all the “woke” crap the government funds, research grants paid to scammers masquerading as “scientists” (shrimp on treadmills, for example), and pork projects that have no validity at all, among an endless variety other waste. Step 2 then would involve the elimination of entire federal departments that should never have existed, such as Education and a large portion of Energy, for a start. Step 3 would be to dig into every remaining department to decide which expenditures and functions are reasonable and constitutional, and which do not belong in the federal government.

No increase to the debt limit should be agreed to until the dems agree to pursue at least Step 1, with no further discussion of any increase unless and until Steps 2 and 3 have been COMPLETED (at which point further increases should not be needed anyway).

That’s what SHOULD happen, but what actually will happen is probably little or nothing of actual substance.

[Terry L Smith]

under jimmy carter we had this happen.
i was in the military and when the darn thing was passed 3 weeks past the date you should jave heard all thatt wss said!!

[cuz1961]

under jimmy carter we had this happen.
i was in the military

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So was I.

Considering I lived on base and my room and board was taken care of,

I didn’t suffer .

[Repealthe17thAmendment]

Biden says that Social Security and Veterans won’t get paid, but he keeps sending money to Ukraine.

[redcatcherb412]

Some Veterans chat forums already reporting their June benefits in some financial institutions are already showing up.

[redcatcherb412]

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Just an FYI to ease minds of fellow veterans with this looming potential of VA compensation NOT being paid out, it is being paid out. I bank with SoFi and received it today. Keep in mind, June 1st pays May.

[eyedigress]

Nope. this is down to 70B of discretionary spending.

Go back to bed everybody.

[cuz1961]

Biden says

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A lot of stuff

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Mostly outright lies.

” I won “

” Beau died in Iraq “

” Hunter is innocent “