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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ok.  Maybe this one is at your reading level.  He is raising the debt limit.  He is then saying no, I’m not giving you a blank check.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/mccarthys-debt-ceiling-bill-I tests-unity-us-house-republicans-2023-04-26/[/quote]

Biden has never asked for a blank check.  McCarthy is welcome to propose a budget for next year.  Biden has been asking him to do that for months now and he won’t do it.  Instead he just says he wants to cut 22%, but won’t name a single thing he wants to cut.  In fact, whenever the WH accuses him of wanting to cut various big items, like defense, veterans benefits, or law enforcement, he claims that wouldn’t actually get cut. [/quote]

That is just false.  A clean bill is a euphemism for no strings or a blank check.  Biden wants to keep spending where it is and for some reason so do list democrats even though everyone can see it isn’t sustainable.  [/quote]

I get that you don’t understand the budget and appropriations.  It’s complicated.  The debt ceiling increase, no matter how big, would not allow any discretionary spending past September 30, 2023.  That’s when the current year’s appropriations acts end.  This congress will have to enact new ones and McCarthy is free to try to negotiate any cuts in that hw wants to.  But McCarthy doesn’t want to have that negotiation and take responsibility for putting cuts on the table. 
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