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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

No, it isn't The debt ceiling refers to money that has ALREADY been committed or spent. A budget codifies how future money will be spent. You are conflating the two, and the Bill the GOP has passed is not a budget or even a framework for a budget. It is a list of unachiveable asperations.[/quote]

Right.  McCarthy had committed to paying our bills.  We agree on that.  But McCarthy has the right as speaker to draft a budget and he is setting fences around it and that is entirely ok and within his job.  He is doing this job.  Biden is trying to take the power of the purse away from McCarthy.  Biden doesn’t get to decide how much is spent.  The executive branch gets to decide how to prioritize the money appropriated to the various departments.  Biden is wholly in McCarthy’s lane.  Biden is going to cause a default.[/quote]

Wrong. McCarthy is proposing not to pay obligations previously approved by Congress. Congress exercised the power of the purse and now wants to renege on the obligations it chose to incur. [/quote]

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