{"id":46912,"date":"2023-01-26T10:09:37","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T10:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandon.ddtest.info\/multisite-test\/biden-to-blast-house-gop-over-economic-agenda-amid-debt-ceiling-feud\/"},"modified":"2023-01-26T10:09:37","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T10:09:37","slug":"biden-to-blast-house-gop-over-economic-agenda-amid-debt-ceiling-feud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandon.ddtest.info\/multisite-test\/biden-to-blast-house-gop-over-economic-agenda-amid-debt-ceiling-feud\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden to blast House GOP over economic agenda amid debt ceiling feud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"wpds-c-grBDNq hide-for-print mb-sm undefined\">\n<div class=\"PJLV PJLV-iAjpuP-css flex items-center\" config=\"[object Object]\" data-qa=\"article-actions\">\n<div class=\"wpds-c-fLphcs\">\n<div class=\"wpds-c-jmLDag wpds-c-jmLDag-bywHgD-variant-primary wpds-c-jmLDag-biynoz-density-compact wpds-c-jmLDag-hZSyid-isOutline-true wpds-c-jmLDag-ejCoEP-icon-left wpds-c-jmLDag-futxca-cv wpds-c-jmLDag-iknmtxO-css\"><button aria-label=\"Comment\" class=\"PJLV PJLV-iPnDcc-css\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewbox=\"0 0 16 16\" fill=\"currentColor\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" role=\"img\" class=\"wpds-c-kKAfCG wpds-c-efqEZa focus-highlight flex items-center justify-center brad-lg pointer transition-400 ease-in-out transition-colors\" aria-label=\"Comment on this story\"><title>Comment on this story<\/title><path d=\"M14 14V2H2v9.47h8.18L12.43 13ZM3 10.52V3h10v9.23l-2.5-1.66Z\"\/><\/svg><\/button><\/p>\n<p>Comment<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"teaser-content grid-center\">\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">President Biden is set to deliver a public rebuke of House Republicans and their economic agenda on Thursday, as the White House maintains it will not negotiate with the new GOP majority over its refusal to raise the U.S. debt ceiling unconditionally.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">The speech, which Biden is slated to deliver at a union facility in Springfield, Va., comes as Republican lawmakers say they want to leverage the looming fiscal deadline to secure deep federal spending cuts and other policy concessions \u2014 even at the risk of sending the U.S. government into a catastrophic default.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">Previewing the president\u2019s comments, a White House official said that Biden plans to highlight his recent legislative accomplishments, including the adoption of laws that aim to improve the country\u2019s infrastructure, combat climate change and lower health care costs. The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the remarks in advance, said Biden would also note how Democrats\u2019 efforts have created jobs and helped tamp down inflation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">In doing so, the president seeks to draw a contrast with Republicans, highlighting how some party lawmakers have sought to \u201ccut Social Security and Medicare\u201d and target other \u201cprograms Americans have earned,\u201d according to White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, who briefed reporters separately on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">\u201cWe are willing, and the president is willing, to work with Congress in a bipartisan way,\u201d Jean-Pierre said at her daily press briefing. \u201cBut he\u2019s also going to call out Republicans, particularly in the House. \u2026 The president has said he is going to fight every day to protect those programs that taxpayers pay into.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">For the White House, the speech marks the latest in a series of escalating attacks on House Republicans, who in turn have blamed Biden for what they say is reckless spending that has contributed to the country\u2019s stubbornly high prices. But the war of words between the two parties has taken on greater significance in recent days, threatening to touch off a political showdown over the debt ceiling.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">Biden has called on Republicans to raise or suspend the limit without delay, stressing he is unwilling to negotiate over one of the country\u2019s most important fiscal obligations. But Republicans have seized on the issue in pursuit of billions of dollars in spending cuts, arguing the president should come to the table in a time of divided government to strike a deal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">\u201cFor President Biden to say we can\u2019t even have that conversation, that\u2019s irresponsible,\u201d charged House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) at a news conference Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">The public sniping evinces the widening chasm between the two parties, as Biden prepares to sit down with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) in the coming days. The White House maintains that the scope of the upcoming meeting is broad \u2014 and that Republicans should raise the debt ceiling without conditions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">The debt ceiling concerns the money the United States may borrow to pay its existing bills. Both parties have enacted laws that have added to the nation\u2019s debt, totaling more than $31 trillion. That includes ordinary government programs as well as tax cuts adopted under President Donald Trump in 2017, a series of bipartisan coronavirus aid packages and trillions of dollars in spending toward Biden\u2019s economic agenda.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">Repeatedly, Republicans voted to suspend the limit under Trump \u2014 often with the aid of Democrats who disliked his policies. Yet GOP lawmakers quickly refused to provide similar support once they assumed control of the House this January, demanding instead that the Biden administration come to the table on a broader spending deal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">As a result, the Biden administration this month started taking special budgetary measures to prevent the government from breaching the debt ceiling. But the Treasury Department has warned its efforts may only stave off a default until early June \u2014 at which point Congress must act or risk a fiscal calamity that could trigger a recession.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">In exchange for their votes, Republicans have signaled they could try to pare back spending to the levels adopted in the 2022 fiscal year. That could result in massive cuts, potentially exceeding $130 billion, predominantly affecting federal health, education, labor and other domestic programs. Others have sought to cap costs for key domestic agencies over the next decade, reprising an approach lawmakers last took in 2011, when an earlier Republican-led standoff over the debt pushed the United States to the fiscal brink.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">Appearing at a weekly GOP news conference, Rep. Tom Emmer (R-Minn.), the party\u2019s chief vote counter in the chamber, stressed Wednesday that Republicans \u201cran and won in 2022 on reining in reckless federal spending,\u201d adding it would be a \u201cgrave mistake\u201d if Democrats did not discuss a potential deal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">Scalise, meanwhile, rejected the idea that his party seeks to cut Social Security, arguing that it needs to be \u201cstrengthened for seniors who paid into it.\u201d Other GOP lawmakers, however, have called for special panels to explore the finances of federal entitlement programs \u2014 and resurfaced policy proposals that could raise the retirement age for younger Americans.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">Senate Republicans, meanwhile, rallied Wednesday behind their House counterparts \u2014 suggesting they, too, would deny Democrats critical votes to raise the debt ceiling without reductions in federal spending. Even a member of Biden\u2019s own party, Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.), offered renewed support this week for bipartisan negotiations between McCarthy and Biden.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">Most Democrats, however, have faulted Republicans for holding the debt ceiling \u201chostage.\u201d At the party\u2019s own news conference, Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Wednesday that he hoped to speak soon with McCarthy, yet he cast early doubt on the GOP\u2019s calls for a deal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">\u201cUntil McCarthy has a plan, a plan that can pass the House with Republican support \u2026 going to the White House is like going with no cards in his hand,\u201d Schumer said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"dn-ns hide-for-print\" data-testid=\"mostRead\" subscriptions-section=\"content\"\/><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/__i\/rss\/rd\/articles\/CBMiT2h0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS91cy1wb2xpY3kvMjAyMy8wMS8yNi9iaWRlbi1ob3VzZS1nb3AtZGVidC1saW1pdC_SAQA?oc=5\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comment on this story Comment President Biden is set to deliver a public rebuke of House Republicans and their economic agenda on Thursday, as the White House maintains it will not negotiate with the new GOP majority over its refusal to raise the U.S. debt ceiling unconditionally. 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