“Geeze thats a wooping 240 billion per year !!!”
Ah but they also don’t do it by equal amounts. It is waited for the later years. And by then they will have enacted 10 times that in new spending.
This would be the republican cave in that we all knew was coming.
It’s worse. The debt limit is expected to last through the next presidential election. At that time a new Congress will form. That Congress will be separate and independent from this Congress. They are free to vote as they choose on any bill without consideration of the intentions of the former Congress.
We need a hardening of the spine by injection of tea into the next House of Representatives. Boner needs to be defeated so Cantor can deliver.