Democrats are increasing the pressure on President Biden to negotiate with House Speaker McCarthy on the debt limit
Those skirmishes have now expanded into an all-out war. President Joe Biden’s economic speech in Maryland on Wednesday, which leveled a series of policy and political attacks at House Republicans, serves as a critical marker for a White House moving quickly to escalate the political pressure on House Republicans as the calendar moves closer to the deadline to raise the nation’s borrowing limit.
But the speech was also tailored to directly attack McCarthy and the broad outlines of the California Republican’s forthcoming proposal at the same moment behind the scenes efforts to keep Democrats unified and escalate outside pressure. “Folks, it’s the same old trickle-down dressed up in MAGA clothing,” Biden said of McCarthy’s proposal in his remarks. “Only worse.” White House officials quietly circulated messaging and polling memos touting Biden’s budget and tax proposal earlier this week.
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