while enforcing some limits on government spending, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy predicted on Sunday.
He offered some specifics about the agreement with Biden while pushing back on already-emerging criticism from his party's right flank that Republicans did not exact enough concessions on the federal government's budget. "It takes the threat of catastrophic default off the table, protects our hard-earned and historic economic recovery. And the agreement also represents a compromise... No one got everything they want," he said.
When answering questions from reporters, Biden defended his earlier remarks that the debt ceiling was "non-negotiable," in the wake of the negotiations that just occurred. He noted that the debt ceiling and budget cuts were not roped together. Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy is joined by his top negotiators on the debt limit, Rep. Garret Graves, left, and Rep. Patrick McHenry, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, as he talks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on May 28, 2023.
The agreement would phase in new work requirements for recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits -- specifically time limits on the benefits for people up to age 54, excluding veterans and homeless people. Those new requirements would sunset in 2030, sources said. McHenry said that the bill instead lays out, as one example, $704 billion in annual non-defense discretionary government spending while "hold[ing] vets harmless" --that Republicans were seeking spending cuts that could affect veterans.
"Let's let the members actually read the bill before they make a decision and go forward," he told reporters.
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