Donald Trump Finally Shares How He Feels About the Debt Ceiling Deal

The deal to raise the debt ceiling for two years to the tune of $4 trillion while minimally cutting spending passed the House, thanks to the Democratic Party support. More Democrats voted for the compromise than Republicans did, which we all saw coming, given the vocal opposition from the party's conservative wing. Even more damning were the allegations that the $4 trillion increase wasn’t a Democratic Party pitch but Speaker Kevin McCarthy's (R-CA) proposal. Yet, even on the Republican side of the aisle, you had staunch conservatives disagreeing.

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), one of the most prominent spending hawks, voiced his approval of the legislation, whereas Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) vehemently opposed it. Massie’s stamp of approval was key as it assured passage through the House Rules Committee, which enabled the process of bringing this bill up for a floor vote.

As Spencer wrote, at 314-117, the deal passed. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) voiced his support for the bill. Still, the fact it was passed without majority Republican Party support guarantees a motion to vacate could be considered by House conservatives. If successful, it could take the gavel away from Mr. McCarthy.

Well, have no fear, establishment media, Trump has spoken about the deal, and he's not too pleased with it (via WaPo) [emphasis mine]:
Most Republican presidential candidates are panning the deal negotiated by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to suspend the debt ceiling, including the GOP front-runner, former president Donald Trump, who said he would have allowed the country to default.
“Well, it is what it is, it was going to pass,” Trump told Des Moines 1040 WHO radio host Simon Conway, adding that “we’ll get it fixed and will get it fixed properly in two years.” Asked about his recent CNN town hall comments about letting a default happen, he said, “I would have done that.”
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During the CNN town hall event earlier this month, Trump argued that Republicans should use the deal ceiling as leverage to roll back many of Biden’s spending priorities.
“If they don’t, … you’ll have to default,” Trump said. He suggested the consequences of a default could lead to “a bad week or a bad day.”
During Trump’s presidency, the debt ceiling was raised three times by Congress without any preconditions.
[…]
Until Wednesday, Trump had been publicly silent since the contours of the deal became public Saturday — and had drawn criticism from some GOP presidential rivals for that.

Look, it’s not the best bill by any stretch. We’re also not out of the woods here since it heads to the Democratic-controlled Senate, where progressives aren’t happy with the legislation. Then again, will they torpedo the whole package and deny Joe Biden a legislative win? This isn’t over yet.

Trump is good on a lot of things. History has shown that.
But when he was president, he did next to nothing to rein in spending.
Sad to say, but in this instance he’s part of the problem.

So who could get it right? The only person I can think of is Rand Paul. But if he were president, would he let himself be squeezed as Trump did?

This late in the game, no amount of cuts is going to fix this. We have to let it crash & burn, unfortunately, and rebuild from scratch and on Constitutional principles. It’s going to suck, but the Fed Reserve has to end. And it’s going to end ugly. That’s why I think secretly Trump is all for the spending (he was the one out front asking why we didn’t give every citizen $2000 for the first COVID payment versus $600, btw) in order to let them hang themselves when it falls apart.

He may have kept out of the public debate out of deference to Speaker of the House McCarthy.

The House being the bona fide constitutional originator of spending bills, and McCarthy having had Trump’s full-throated support and endorsement during the run-up to his election as speaker, this approach is not hard to explain.

Nor does it smack of a lack of courage, as Trump would surely have been having regular room-trmpetature private conversations with McCarthy (as he surely never had as Prexy with Paul Ryan) the whole time the raise-the-debt-ceiling debate was playing out in public.

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