#debtceilingcrisis — Public Fediverse posts

With their #DebtCeiling shenanigans, Republicans are sending a terribly cynical message to our #Veterans this Memorial Day weekend: "We don't give a damn if you join your fallen brothers and sisters." #DebtCeilingCrisis #VoteBlue

https://michiganadvance.com/2023/05/27/veterans-warn-their-health-care-could-be-cut-amid-debt-ceiling-fight/

Dana Milbank: Save the world economy or his own job? McCarthy can’t decide.

"'Let me be very clear,' he said. 'From the first day I sat with the president, there’s two criterias I told him,' McCarthy said, raising two fingers. 'We’re not going to raise taxes because we bring in more money than we ever have. And we’re not going to pass a clean debt ceiling. And we’ve got to spend less than we spent this year.'

Let me be very clear, Mr. Speaker. Those are three, er, “criterias.'"

#KevinMcCarthy #debtceilingcrisis #uspolitics #gop
Free (gift) article from #wapo: https://wapo.st/3oGQtTP

White House Press Sec. Karine Jean-Pierre: “the Republicans’ demand for cuts in the name of fiscal responsibility and deficit reduction is belied by their protection of tax breaks skewed for the wealthy and corporations. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said those tax cuts would add $3.5 trillion to the debt over the next decade.” #debtceiling #debtceilingcrisis

Sen. Sanders told #TheNewYorkTimes that under normal circumstances, the #debtLimit would be negotiated in 2023, but if #Republicans won the House, they’d hold the debt limit, and therefore the global economy, hostage to extract spending cuts he would find unacceptable.

Bernie was right. Joe Manchin was wrong.

#GOPfascists #RepublicansAreTheProblem #debtceilingcrisis #DebtCeilingHostage #RepublicansLieAboutEverything

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/bernie-sanders-debt-limit-joe-manchin-b2344402.html

Make no mistake, Republicans are at fault here. They are holding the country hostage to enact cruel budget cuts and violate the Constitution. So any “gimmick” that Biden might use is reasonable in comparison. I think minting the #TrillionDollarPlatinumCoin is the best option.

Here Are Biden’s Last Few Ways to Get Around the Debt Limit
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/05/here-are-bidens-last-few-ways-to-get-around-the-debt-limit.html

#DebtCeilingCrisis #DebtCeiling #14thAmendment

How Republicans’ cruelty threatens to destroy the world’s economy

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/debt-ceiling-limit-economy-recession-b2340753.html

#IndependentUK #DebtCeilingCrisis #RepublicanCruelty #WorldEconomyThreat #GlobalRecessionRisk #FiscalResponsibilityNow #Politics #News

CW: cartoon depiction of violence and guns

I have not drawn an #EditorialCartoon in over ten years, until today.

#news #politics #KevinMcCarthy #DebtCeiling #debtceilingcrisis #art #lineart #politicalcartoon #comic #illustration

US debt ceiling crisis can be explained in three words: Marjorie Taylor Greene

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2023/05/03/debt-ceiling-crisis-standoff-biden-mccarthy-republicans-default/70177113007/

#USAToday #DebtCeilingCrisis #MarjorieTaylorGreene #Biden #McCarthy #Republicans #Default #OpinionColumnist