My position is simple - I am not going to raise or suspend the debt ceiling (racking up more debt) without significant & real spending cuts attached to it. I’ve been negotiating to that end. No apologies. CC: @realDonaldTrump @SpeakerJohnson @SenJohnThune @freedomcaucus
— Chip Roy (@chiproytx) December 19, 2024
US national debt reaches $35 trillion
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Old bill: $110BB in deficit spending (unpaid for), $0 increase in the national credit card.
— Chip Roy (@chiproytx) December 19, 2024
New bill: $110BB in deficit spending (unpaid for), $4 TRILLION+ debt ceiling increase with $0 in structural reforms for cuts.
Time to read the bill: 1.5 hours.
I will vote no.
KaiBear said:Its impossible.boognish_bear said:KaiBear said:boognish_bear said:
Nothing to see here...JUST IN: 🇺🇸 US national debt reaches an all-time high of $36,000,000,000,000 pic.twitter.com/DCfr8t7lSY
— Watcher.Guru (@WatcherGuru) November 20, 2024
Goes up another trillion every 100 days.
It's simply not sustainable.
I hope the Trump administration seriously takes it on…
Too many campaign promises have been made.
Besides every politician knows that to do what's needed to the balance the budget would result in their party getting voted out of office.
We have met the enemy....and he is us.
Pogo
Sadly yes…
[democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage. -Alexander Fraser Tytler]
(PS: There is no reliable record of Alexander Tytler's having written the text… but still)
Thomas Jefferson: "we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt"
— Sunny Po (@sunny051488) November 13, 2023
Federal Reserve / US Treasury 2023: pic.twitter.com/gudeMMv2UU
Then force democrats to vote down a standalone bill. Make them explain why they won’t pass it because it doesn’t have a ton of unrelated insane spending attached.
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) December 18, 2024
Easiest layup ever, and you know this. But you’re not doing it. Why? https://t.co/SLccndbPGV
This isn’t complicated.
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) December 20, 2024
Separate the bills and vote on them individually.
one vote on the clean CR
one vote on the debt limit
one vote on disaster relief
one vote on farm bailouts
Radical right? Individual bills for each issue.
J.R. said:Fre3dombear said:KaiBear said:
Tariffs work or Biden would not have kept Trumps
No no no. See you don't get it. Tariffs are now inflationary.
Orange tariffs inflationary. Ruhtarded tariffs good.
Please explain how tariffs are not inflationary
It depends. Are rising gasoline prices inflationary?
You been begging your boy Biden to repeal the tariffs the last 4 years of his historic insane inflation that's near bankrupted most Americans?
The pattern is clear:
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) December 20, 2024
Step 1: Republicans try solving a large national problem (border, debt, Ukraine).
Step 2: Democrats run some sort of gaslighting op to stop it. https://t.co/yf2yoDveKI
BREAKING: Biden administration has withdrawn plan to cancel student loan debt for about 38 million Americans.
— Leading Report (@LeadingReport) December 21, 2024
yes, they are. Didn't vote for Biden and never would. Tariffs on Mexico and Canada will increase inflation. See food, Oil from Canada (4.1M bpd) imports. China is a different situation.Fre3dombear said:J.R. said:Fre3dombear said:KaiBear said:
Tariffs work or Biden would not have kept Trumps
No no no. See you don't get it. Tariffs are now inflationary.
Orange tariffs inflationary. Ruhtarded tariffs good.
Please explain how tariffs are not inflationary
It depends. Are rising gasoline prices inflationary?
You been begging your boy Biden to repeal the tariffs the last 4 years of his historic insane inflation that's near bankrupted most Americans?
Redbrickbear said:The pattern is clear:
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) December 20, 2024
Step 1: Republicans try solving a large national problem (border, debt, Ukraine).
Step 2: Democrats run some sort of gaslighting op to stop it. https://t.co/yf2yoDveKI
Pelosi is a clown.
Sen. Rand Paul's amendment to raise Social Security retirement age to 70 fails by a vote of 3-93.
— Jeremy Art (@cspanJeremy) December 21, 2024
Sen. Schumer: "Came close. Came close." pic.twitter.com/QnEkVMR9NO