Debt limit antics this go 'round: same posturing for the base? Or for realz calamity?

[Franklin Pierce]

So subjective and confusing that it allows this continual Tax the Rich grievance, Just like every other 5K page law..made into law by the biggest dumbasses OR political divider on subject one could envision

McCarthy said once a deal is reached, he will give legislators 72 hours before bringing the bill to a vote. He noted on Saturday morning that the bill would not be lengthy, likely around 150 pages.

Biden and McCarthy agree in principle to raise $31.4 trillion limit for two years to avoid default | Daily Mail Online

 

[Orangeburst]

McCarthy said once a deal is reached, he will give legislators 72 hours before bringing the bill to a vote. He noted on Saturday morning that the bill would not be lengthy, likely around 150 pages.

Biden and McCarthy agree in principle to raise $31.4 trillion limit for two years to avoid default | Daily Mail Online

I was speaking to bills in general. But seeing a debt limit bill even reaching 150 pages just sucks balls as much as the 5K bills

 

[85SugarVol]

Democrats are mad at the media for not more aggressively making their case? Mercy.

Politico -

Biden officials also have bristled at the media coverage of the standoff, complaining that outlets are failing to convey the seriousness of the crisis or fact-check Republicans on their claims.

Some Democrats acknowledged they could do only so much. Delauro publicly begged reporters to provide the pushback that has yet to more fully come from the White House.
“Help us,” she told a group of reporters on Thursday. “I don’t want you to feel that you’re being co-opted, but you have a responsibility as well.”

Democrats to Biden: Get ‘off the bench’ in the debt limit fight

 

[AM64]

While some Republicans, particularly those in the House Freedom Caucus, have already begun expressing their opposition to the deal, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) spoke out favorably about it Saturday night, praising it for rescinding COVID money that she said would have otherwise benefitted foreign nations, including adversaries like China.

McCarthy will likely need to rely on some Democrat votes given Republicans’ narrow majority only affords him a few defectors before a bill would fail.

McCarthy, Biden Reach Debt Ceiling Agreement in Principle

We should be going after China for huge Covid reparations. If Fouci and others are hung out to dry either as scapegoats or people who authorized US involvement without the right to do so, that's just fine with me, too.

 

[Boston Vol]

McCarthy said once a deal is reached, he will give legislators 72 hours before bringing the bill to a vote. He noted on Saturday morning that the bill would not be lengthy, likely around 150 pages.

Biden and McCarthy agree in principle to raise $31.4 trillion limit for two years to avoid default | Daily Mail Online

Only in 21st century America can a 150 page bill be considered “not lengthy.”

 

[lawgator1]

While some Republicans, particularly those in the House Freedom Caucus, have already begun expressing their opposition to the deal, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) spoke out favorably about it Saturday night, praising it for rescinding COVID money that she said would have otherwise benefitted foreign nations, including adversaries like China.

McCarthy will likely need to rely on some Democrat votes given Republicans’ narrow majority only affords him a few defectors before a bill would fail.

McCarthy, Biden Reach Debt Ceiling Agreement in Principle

If MJT is for it you know it's crap.

 

[jmacvols1]

McCarthy-Biden debt deal eliminates unspent COVID funds, blocks IRS expansion and reforms permitting

McCarthy described the deal as an "agreement in principle," and it rolls back domestic spending to fiscal year 2022 levels while limiting "top line federal spending to 1% growth for the next 6 years."

The debt limit would be raised by about $1.5 trillion until after the next presidential election as part of the agreement.

The outline of the deal includes clawing back tens of billions of dollars in unspent COVID-19 stimulus funds and streamlining the regulatory permitting process for energy projects with the first major reform to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) since 1982, according to the House GOP document.

Most Republicans and some Democrats have complained NEPA’s red tape has been slowing energy production in America, from oil and gas drilling to new clean energy projects.

The agreement also reduces funding for the hiring of additional Internal Revenue Service agents by eliminating the fiscal year 2023 staff funding request for new agents.

It would cut $400 million from the Centers for Disease Control's "Global Health Fund" that House GOP leaders have said sends "taxpayer money to China and billions in other programs for the largest total rescissions package in history."

Student loan borrowers would also have to start repaying their student loan debts. Student loan payments were paused throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

It also imposes a work requirement for some able bodied food stamp and welfare recipients, which the GOP memo boasts will “save taxpayer dollars, get Americans back to work.”

The agreement is also expected to include a formal rejection of Biden's "proposed new tax increases, new government mandates, and new federal programs."

 

[Vol737]

This is an enormously misleading thing on the IRS. Besides, we need some more enforcement on the wealthiest.

Except they’re largely going to be targeting small, middle class businesses and banging on the doors of people guilty of $600 Venmo transactions.

 

[W.TN.Orange Blood]

#1: Not Seen .... Stop out-of-control Inflationary Spending ....

 

[W.TN.Orange Blood]

 

[lawgator1]

That's..... just an awkward comparison that does not work well.

 

[W.TN.Orange Blood]

That's..... just an awkward comparison that does not work well.

It does look stupid as your president.

 

[W.TN.Orange Blood]

 

[WBO]

I'm guessing you right wingers just love this picture.

 

[W.TN.Orange Blood]

I'm guessing you right wingers just love this picture.

 

[OrangeBoro]

I'm guessing you right wingers just love this picture.

That was probably the only way the frail corrupt POS would make it up the stairs

 

[WBO]

That was probably the only way the frail corrupt POS would make it up the stairs

I hope you live a long, long life and experience all the same things. Can see you now, gumming your oatmeal.

 

[OrangeBoro]

I hope you live a long, long life and experience all the same things. Can see you now, gumming your oatmeal.

Hopefully my family cares enough for me they wouldn’t let me run for president

 

[lawgator1]

Hopefully my family cares enough for me they wouldn’t let me run for president

We do, I know that much.

 

[whodeycin85]

Rs caved as predicted

Didnt you say that the GOP should just raise the ceiling as a tactic to let the Dems hangs themselves politically by heading deeper into a recession?

 

[W.TN.Orange Blood]

 

[hog88]

Didnt you say that the GOP should just raise the ceiling as a tactic to let the Dems hangs themselves politically by heading deeper into a recession?

Yes I did

 

[Orangeburst]

What in tarnation! I knew there was something fishy about never mentioning the ceiling

 

[Orangeburst]

Exactly what I said. McCarthy you fool.

 

[Sudden Impact]

No Matter which side you are on Dem or Rep, both are losers because of the incompetent pricks we elected to serve and represent us. It's time to cut nuts and move on without these idiots.