We are just days away from the anticipated meeting among the four leaders of the U.S. House and Senate and Joe-Joe Biden at the White House over how to go about raising the debt ceiling.
This from redstate.com.
As previously reported:
At one point earlier in the week, it appeared Biden had caved to Republican demands on a compromise that includes spending cuts, but that mirage quickly evaporated.
Red State‘s Joe Cunningham noticed a Washington Post article that suggested much is still up in the air for the White House:
In a piece titled White House leaves door open to deal that resolves debt ceiling crisis, the paper notes that while the White House is attempting to make it clear that tying cuts to the debt ceiling is unacceptable, there is room to talk about it. […]
The Post points out:
It is possible, that Biden and McCarthy could agree to an informal or handshake deal on government spending that resolves the immediate debt limit challenge without finalizing a full budget deal.
But there’s no incentive for McCarthy to go with a handshake deal that risks his Speakership.
And now it appears McCarthy will have Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell at the table ready to stand shoulder to shoulder with him. Ahead of next Tuesday’s meeting, McConnell has signaled there will not be a debt ceiling deal on the Senate side—at least, not “without substantial spending and budget reforms”—with his co-signing a GOP letter taking a firm stand on the issue.
From The Hill:
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (RINO-KY) has signed onto a letter stating he and more than 40 members of the Senate GOP conference will not back “any bill that raises the debt ceiling without substantive spending and budget reforms,” according to sources.
The letter is addressed to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (C/G-NY) and would be McConnell’s clearest statement to date about what he is willing to support to avoid a national default next month when the federal government is projected to run out of money.
The Hill reported:
The letter—the brainchild of Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT)—aims to sustain a filibuster of a clean bill to raise the debt ceiling, which is what [communists/globalists] are demanding.
The letter reads, in part:
The Senate Republican conference is united behind the House Republican conference in support of spending cuts and structural budget reform as a starting point for negotiations on the debt ceiling.
As such, we will not be voting for cloture on any bill that raises the debt ceiling without substantive spending and budget reforms
We the People may assume with even more confidence that this is the real deal when we see the names of some of the other signers (see below the names of some fair-weather Republicans who have disappointed conservatives in recent months):
The signatories include Senate Republican Whip John Thune (SD), Republican Conference Chairman John Barrasso (WY), Policy Committee Chairwoman Joni Ernst (IA), Conference Vice Chairwoman Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) and National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman Steve Daines (MT).
Final thoughts: At this point there is no deal and Speaker McCarthy appears to be holding up to pressure to fold. May the MAGA members continue to remind him his job is on the line. And certainly, he must be kept aware that the communists/globalists will lie, cheat, and/or steal at the first opportunity and must not be trusted with a handshake deal.
