Hard-line Republican conservatives, who have the power to block any deal in the narrowly divided House, want to force deep spending cuts on Biden and the Democratic-led Senate in exchange for an agreement to avoid default on the $31.4 trillion debt.
"But the president also can't refuse to negotiate. I mean, if he refuses to negotiate, you're not going to get any Republican support for anything," Bacon told Reuters. Congress raised the debt limit three times during Republican Donald Trump's presidency. But Republicans are now seizing the issue as leverage in their first major act since winning a narrow 222-212 House majority.
, who played an integral role in past debt talks, predicted that any solution would have to come from McCarthy and Biden, saying the Republican-controlled House was unlikely to accept solutions from the Democratic-led Senate. "We can spend at defense spending levels for the '23 omnibus. We can return to pre-COVID spending levels for the rest of the bureaucratic state, and you can get to better than '22 levels," Representative Chip Roy, a leading conservative, told reporters.
Because GOP pegged as 'steal the earned social security and Medicare and let grandmom starve' group. And that's not good in 2024.
Typically as usual the GOP want us the American taxpayers to pay their credit card bills no matter the costs🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
'Elections have consequences': Does Obama regret saying that now? YES❗️
Just say No.
There is nothing to negotiate! The money were already allocated by the last budget legislation and spent accordingly! PassCleanDebtCeiling
Demand away.