White House digs in on debt strategy after House GOP's passage of their plan
The surprise passage of House Republicans’ plan to slash spending in return for raising the debt ceiling is pushing the White House to refine its debt ceiling strategy, ramping up attacks on GOP lawmakers while maintaining there are still no plans for President Joe Biden to invite Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., for talks over how to avoid a crippling debt default, a White House official said.
Biden aides strategized Friday over how to use next week’s congressional recess to hammer lawmakers in their backyards for supporting a bill that would undo Biden initiatives to relieve student debt, support clean energy tax incentives and ramp up IRS enforcement while strictly limiting growth in most domestic spending programs.
The messaging plan would seek to spell out what the House’s proposed spending plan would mean for specific states and congressional districts, through cuts to programs that provide medical care for veterans, nutrition assistance for women and young children, and invest in medical research.
They also aim to flip the script on Republicans by warning about the security of the nation’s southern border.
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Kevin McCarthy has no chance at a budget deal: Joe Biden has learned from Barack Obama's mistakes
Never Again...
If you think that old dogs can't learn new tricks you need to take a look at Joe Biden. Back in 2011, during the first serious Republican debt ceiling hostage crisis and the protracted negotiations that followed, Biden undercut Senate Majority leader Harry Reid and wrecked a deal he had made for a terrible one. There was a lot of hand-wringing at the time over Biden's tendency to give away the store so when the Republicans pulled their hostage maneuver again in 2013, Reid stipulated that Biden needed to stay out of the negotiations — and the White House agreed.
The Obama administration, including Biden, had learned their lesson: Negotiating with the extremist GOP on the debt ceiling is a very bad idea. They refused and the Republicans capitulated, sparing the country and the world economy another jolt. The days of dreaming about a "Grand Bargain" were blessedly over.
You may have noticed that we never had one of these fights during the Trump years when the deficit was growing at a very fast pace.
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