House progressives are divided over the deal. Democrats said they expect Republicans to deliver the majority – at least 150 of the 218 votes needed for passage. It’s not clear how many Republicans will defy McCarthy and how many Democrats the minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries, can bring on board to make up the difference.
He frequently wears a home-made real-time digital debt clock on his suit so that anyone who talks to him has to see the trillions of dollars stacking up.īut his decision to vote to let the bill go to the floor means the debt deal could pass through the House Wednesday, even if it needs help from the many Democrats who seem likely to support it. The debt is a motivating issue for Massie.
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Even if he ultimately opposes the deal, Massie argued the full House should have the opportunity to weigh in. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, broke with two other hardliners on the Rules Committee to vote with McCarthy-aligned Republicans to pass the bill through the committee. And that could be, but it’s not coming without objections from the political left and right.īill passes first test but House math is a moving targetĪ key conservative, Rep. President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy have portrayed the debt ceiling bill as the best possible compromise achievable in the limited time before the Treasury Department is unable to meet its obligations, which could be as soon as June 5. Many of the hardliners aren’t buying into the mirage that the deal to cut some spending for two years and seek to control it after that will have a meaningful effect on the size and scope of the federal deficit.Īccomplishing that larger goal would require meddling with the sacred cows of American government spending – from the Pentagon, Social Security and Medicare – which weren’t even part of this debt ceiling conversation. House Republicans avoided the first attempt at assault by hardline conservatives, who are appalled at the bipartisan plan to suspend the debt ceiling until after the presidential election. The US government took one step back from self-inflicted economic disaster on Tuesday.
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