Fraudster Kevin McCarthy Doesn’t Have The GOP Votes To Pass His Spending Cuts

Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s position is truthful anemic that he doesn’t person nan Republican votes to walk nan spending cuts that he wants.

Via: Jackie Calmes successful The Los Angeles Times:

We sewage grounds of nan compression this week, moreover arsenic McCarthy, successful his on-again, off-again indebtedness ceiling negotiations pinch President Biden, was afloat of budget-cutting bravado to reporters. Just earlier midnight connected Monday — midnight! — nan House Appropriations Committee canceled its Tuesday and Wednesday meetings erstwhile voting was scheduled connected nan first of nan twelve bills that annually money nan national government’s operations. Those bills person to capable successful nan gory specifications of nan spending cuts that Republicans near unidentified erstwhile they passed McCarthy’s indebtedness limit measure past month.

The stated logic for nan postponement: The committee’s Republican mostly wanted to springiness McCarthy “maximum flexibility” successful his talks pinch Biden.

The existent reason: They didn’t person nan votes to walk their ain bills. Failure, successful turn, would person undercut McCarthy’s leverage successful nan negotiations.

McCarthy continues to declare that activity requirements for societal information nett programs are connected nan table, but nan White House and legislature Democrats opportunity that they are not.

Congressional Democrats person besides warned that immoderate measure pinch activity requirements would beryllium voted down by them. 

Kevin McCarthy needs Democratic votes to walk immoderate deal, but he will ne'er get them if he sticks to nan cuts that nan acold correct wants.

Speaker McCarthy is simply a fraudster successful an quiet suit.

The bully elements of nan imaginable woody that Biden is negotiating see automatic provisions to forestall a authorities shutdown and a indebtedness limit summation done nan 2024 election.

President Biden is making judge that House Republicans only get 1 wound astatine nan apple.

The power is connected McCarthy and Democrats should not fto up until he either agrees to a woody that is acceptable to them aliases passes a cleanable indebtedness limit increase.