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Sunday, May 14, 2023

Debt Ceiling Discrepancies, Power Struggles as America Increases Its Poor

Under Trump, Republicans including Kevin McCarthy voted 3 times to raise the debt ceiling with no preconditions. Now McCarthy leads their refusal to raise it again under Biden without slashing "entitlements" military salaries, tax payments, Social Security and Medicare: in this - one of the poorest affluent countries.

 Just months ago, it took 15 rounds for McCarthy to become Speaker, precondition pressure and all.


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