Posted on 05/08/2023 7:03:36 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A group of 43 Republicans in the U.S. Senate said on May 6 that they “oppose raising the debt ceiling without substantive spending and budget reforms,” coalescing around their House counterparts ahead of the White House meeting over the federal debt ceiling amid a monthslong political standoff.
“The Senate Republican conference is united behind the House Republican conference in support of spending cuts and structural budget reform as a starting point for negotiations on the debt ceiling,” the group of Republicans, led by Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), said in a letter addressed to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-Calif.).
“It is now clear that Senate Republicans aren’t going to bail out Biden and Schumer, they have to negotiate,” Lee said in the statement accompanying the letter.
“I thank my colleagues for joining my effort to emphasize this point in the clearest possible terms.”
President Joe Biden is scheduled to sit down with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on May 9 to discuss a path forward on the federal debt ceiling. But the White House has signaled that there would be little compromise from the president.
“[Biden] is not going to negotiate on the debt ceiling,” White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters on May 2.
However, the president “is willing to have a separate conversation about their spending, what they want to do with the budget,” she said.
Biden and McCarthy have been locked in a standoff over raising the debt ceiling since January. The president has called on Congress to pass a hike to the government’s borrowing limit without conditions.
McCarthy made it clear that he wouldn’t consider increasing the debt ceiling unless the president agreed to limit future spending.
“No clean debt ceiling is going to pass the House,” McCarthy said on April 26. “We can’t do that to our children.”
House Republicans passed their own solution to the debt crisis on April 26. The bill—the Limit, Save, Grow Act—would lift the federal borrowing cap by $1.5 trillion while enacting sweeping spending cuts, which Democrats have rejected.
Schumer began navigating to advance a clean, two-year extension of the debt limit in the Senate last week. He told reporters that Democrats would decide whether to put the extension up for a vote after the upcoming White House meeting.
Schumer, McConnell, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) have also been invited to the debt limit meeting at the White House on May 9.
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I think it’s about cloture...and 60 votes.
Yes, who are the friggin’ holdouts?
The usual 6 Republicrats.
Why only 43? There are 49 Republicans in the Senate! Who are the six who refuse to join the 43?
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Murkowski & Collins are two of the easiest if I was placing a bet.
The other four...... Who knows?
“There were six Republican senators who didn’t join Lee’s effort—Sens. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), and John Kennedy (R-La.).”
No, there are 43 Republicans. There are six Democrats who identify as Republican to get elected.
Just think what this nation might be had the Founding Fathers not written in The Great Compromise into the Constitution.
That’s a very interesting list.
Senator Lee said on the air last night there were 3 more that agreed with his position but did not sign the letter. Hopefully they stand their ground
Josh Harley and Rand Paul.
Weird list. I’d like to hear the reason for Rand Harley and Kennedy. The others are just born weaklings
If Rand Paul is opposed, the “Limit, Save, and Grow” bill is probably loaded with special interest goodies. Look carefully before proceeding.
3 more than needed.
At least.
Rand Paul?????
Don’t raise the debt ceiling at all.We can get by with out spending any more than we have to...
No kidding. WTF?
Who are the 6 that didn’t sign?
May be the bill has too much pork.
That would be par for the course.
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