GOP fiscal hawks revolt against Senate budget deal
Source: The Hill
BY SCOTT WONG AND MELANIE ZANONA - 02/07/18 04:54 PM EST
House conservatives on Wednesday revolted against a massive bipartisan deal to raise the debt ceiling and bust spending caps, complaining that the GOP could no longer lay claim to being the party of fiscal responsibility.
Im not only a no. Im a hell no, quipped Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.), one of many members of the Tea Party-aligned Freedom Caucus who left a closed-door meeting of Republicans saying they would vote against the deal. Its a Christmas tree on steroids, lamented one of the Freedom Caucus leaders, Rep. Dave Brat (R-Va.).
This spending proposal is disgusting and reckless the biggest spending increase since 2009, conservative Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) tweeted after the meeting. I urge every American to speak out against this fiscal insanity.
The debt hike, in particular, is giving conservatives heartburn, said Rep. Dennis Ross (R-Fla.), a member of the GOP vote-counting team.
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/house/372805-gop-fiscal-hawks-revolt-against-senate-budget-deal
Zoonart
(11,881 posts)meet bathtub.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,372 posts)President Cheney once said that deficits don't matter. Repubs have racked up huge deficit numbers. This is nothing new.
But, I suspect that the Freedumb Caucus members are not so much worried about big spending on military, just big spending on domestic social "junk", like health, education, infrastructure.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)olddad56
(5,732 posts)AJT
(5,240 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,467 posts)DeminPennswoods
(15,290 posts)in case they weren't aware.
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)it now goes to the conference committee and they'll have to negotiate an agreement.
DeminPennswoods
(15,290 posts)just like they did for the tax cut. Ball's in Ryan's court.
BeyondGeography
(39,384 posts)That's funny. Their patron saint Reagan tripled the national debt and they just carried on the tradition by adding $1.5 trillion to the deficit with a tax cut that won't do shit for the country. Laughable.
Laurian
(2,593 posts)They are either stupid or evil.....I think both.
asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)I do think we have seen this ACT before...oh the drama - and they are all rethugs....feigned indignation - spending spending.."hell no" BS - oh, wait, you will give me........fill in the blanks...gettin' old..
ChiTownDenny
(747 posts)just added $1.5T to the deficit by cutting taxes for the rich and wealthy.
louis-t
(23,297 posts)Drain the treasury, spend, spend, spend, and NOW they worry about debt?
Skittles
(153,212 posts)Gothmog
(145,631 posts)Ryan will need Democratic votes to get this through the House and so Ryan needs to be nice to Pelosi
SHRED
(28,136 posts)onecaliberal
(32,916 posts)dbackjon
(6,578 posts)Egnever
(21,506 posts)This budget is bullshit, especialy when taken in the context of the huge deficit balloon of a tax cut they just passed.
Of course that clown probably cheered for the tax cut.
Yupster
(14,308 posts)it's so impossible to pay back that no one is even trying anymore. We've hit the hopeless level. Interesting to see what year the s**t hits the fan and how it will be.
We should see it coming as some states will probably hit the wall before the federal government, but it seems inevitable now.
CatWoman
(79,302 posts)PSPS
(13,620 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,624 posts)that took $1.5 TRILLION of revenue away, so they have completely discredited themselves.
House of Roberts
(5,188 posts)I don't recall ever hearing an amount.
ffr
(22,672 posts)Conservatives haven't been the party of fiscal responsibility since at least Nixon and I'm not even sure your party could lay claim to that either. Fiscal Conservative is a misnomer and you are a liar, you tRump enabling coward!
Fiscal responsibility is now the exclusive property of the democratic party. Go sit down you twerp!
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,274 posts)Renew Deal
(81,881 posts)beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)fuck them, they no longer have any standing what so ever and should be laugh at, scorned and mocked when ever they say "fiscal" any thing. Time to end the nonsense and the nicities..