Former U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks is calling on Republican members of Congress to reject the deal brokered by President Joe Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy to raise the debt ceiling.
https://twitter.com/RepMoBrooks/status/1663396134792855553?s=20
The agreement would suspend the debt ceiling limit through 2025 and caps spending at current levels through 2024. The agreement also repurposes some of the unspent COVID19 response funding, and adds work requirements to food stamp benefits.
Brooks discussed why he’s against the deal Monday on WVNN’s “The Yaffee Program.”
“The United States of America is in a death spiral and we need to stop it from happening,” Brooks said. “And any economist I’m aware of that have a lick of sense, that means I’m excluding all socialists, they would agree with that assessment I just gave.”
The former congressman believes a better deal is possible, and pointed to his experience of dealing with this issue while Obama was president.
“I’ve been through this many times,” he said. “In 2011, we duked it out with a Democrat Senate, with a Democrat Barack Obama, and we stuck to our guns. Eventually they caved because we stuck to our guns, and the result was in 2011 when we had a $1.3 trillion deficit we reduced that to $442 billion in a mere four years … So it can be done because we’ve done it before.”
Brooks said any member of Congress who votes for this bill is being irresponsible.
“[W]hat we have in Washington right now is people who are addicted to debt,” he said. “They’re afraid to do what needs to be done to prevent a national insolvency and bankruptcy that would cost the lives of millions of Americas, and I say that literally, that’s not hyperbole. To support a bill whose net effect … is to increase our total debt by $4 trillion over a two year period, which is the second worst two year period in the history of the United States, you can’t be financially responsible and vote for this bill.”
Several Republican members of Congress recently held a press conference on the Capitol steps to highlight the problems they have with the agreement.
Chip Roy on fire:
"Not one Republican should vote for this deal. It is a bad deal. No one sent us here to borrow an additional 4 trillion dollars to get absolutely nothing in return… There will be a reckoning about what just occurred unless we stop this bill." pic.twitter.com/DXBFFl6oCn
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) May 30, 2023
Yaffee is a contributing writer to Yellowhammer News and hosts “The Yaffee Program” weekdays 9-11 a.m. on WVNN. You can follow him on Twitter @Yaffee
