What’s scarier than a Republican debt ceiling crisis? A Republican debt ceiling crisis launched by officials who haven't a clue what they’re doing. (via MaddowBlog)
In other words, as McCarthy heads to the West Wing today for a meeting, he and the president don’t even agree on why they’re having a conversation.Ahead of President Joe Biden’s first meeting Wednesday with new House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, the White House issued two sternly worded demands to the speaker. In a memo circulated Tuesday, top White House advisers Brian Deese and Shalanda Young said Biden intends to ask McCarthy, R-Calif.
The White House’s memo was a rather serious, 1,000-word document, which included sections on specific budget figures. It also tried to establish some parameters ahead of today’s meeting: Biden wants McCarthy to vow at the outset not to cause a deliberate economic catastrophe — hardly an unreasonable request for an elected official who's supposed to work on behalf of the public — and to present some kind of plan that reflects his and his party’s stated goals.
Those hoping McCarthy would follow up with an equally serious response were left wanting. “Mr. President: I received your staff’s memo,” the House speaker said in. “I’m not interested in political games. I’m coming to negotiate for the American people.” To the extent that such details matter, if McCarthy were uninterested in playing “political games,” he probably wouldn’t have sent Biden a taunting response by way of Twitter. What’s more, the “American people” the Republican claims to be negotiating on behalf of are the same people he’s threatening to hurt — on purpose — by way of his party’s debt ceiling crisis.yesterday that it’s “irresponsible to say, as the leader of the free world, to say he’s not going to negotiate.
Making matters worse, McCarthy will arrive at the White House today with a threat, but without a plan. The New York Times... Republicans have insisted that they want “structural” fiscal changes in exchange for voting to raise the borrowing cap, but they have so far declined to offer a cohesive plan outlining what programs they would cut.
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