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McCarthy says he’s taking the economy hostage ‘for the American people’ [1]

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Date: 2023-02-01  

All gavel, no substance.

It’s another big day for Barely Speaker Kevin McCarthy. He gets to go to the White House and meet the president. He’s not going to be turning in his assigned homework from President Joe Biden, however, because that would require work. It would also require the ability to actually do the work, which he’s thus far not demonstrated. So far he’s been all empty blustering.

The White House had a two-part assignment for him that he simply commit to the principle that “the United States will never default on its financial obligation” and that he commit to presenting a budget to “transparently lay out to the American people their fiscal and economic proposals in the normal budget process.” That’s pretty much the bare minimum you can ask from a congressional leader, but too much for McCarthy, who responded with ... empty bluster. “I’m not interested in political games,” he tweeted in response. “I’m coming to negotiate for the American people.”

Uh huh. Just look at all the stuff he and his team have done “for the American people” in the first month of having their tiny majority:

They voted to help out super-rich American tax cheats by repealing funding for the IRS. That bill, by the way, would increase the federal deficit by around $114 billion over the next decade, which pokes a big old hole in their supposed rationale for taking the full faith and credit of the U.S. hostage.

They reiterated that they think abortion is icky and thus all American people who can get pregnant have to be ruled by their personal convictions.

They passed some stuff about the Strategic Petroleum Reserve that does nothing to lower energy costs for the American people. In fact, it could do the exact opposite by limiting the president’s power to increase the supply of petroleum and lower gas prices.

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