GOP Rep. Nancy Mace joins growing list of at least NINETEEN defectors voting ‘NO’ on Kevin McCarthy’s $4 trillion debt ceiling ‘debacle’
- The debt limit deal includes $136 billion in budget cuts and suspends the debt ceiling until Jan. 1 2025 – after the 2024 election
- ‘This ‘deal’ normalizes record high spending started during the pandemic. It sets these historically high spending levels as the baseline,’ Mace said
- READ MORE: A full breakdown of deal to raise the debt limit: What Speaker gave up in package conservatives are calling a ‘turd sandwich’
GOP Rep. Nancy Mace grew a swelling list of Republicans who are balking at the cost of the debt limit deal Speaker Kevin McCarthy cut with President Biden.
‘Republicans got outsmarted by a President who can’t find his pants. I’m voting NO on the debt ceiling debacle because playing the DC game isn’t worth selling out our kids and grandkids,’ the South Carolina Republican said in announcing her position.
The debt limit deal includes $136 billion in budget cuts and suspends the debt ceiling until Jan. 1 2025 – after the 2024 election.
It leaves non-defense discretionary spending flat in 2024 and allows for a one percent increase in 2025 – essentially amounting to cuts since inflation is not factored in.
‘This ‘deal’ normalizes record high spending started during the pandemic. It sets these historically high spending levels as the baseline for all future spending,’ Mace sounded off on Twitter.
‘After factoring in a small cut to discretionary spending over the next 2 yrs, we are still talking about ~$6T more or less in spending bc of large increases in spending elsewhere. In other words, it’s a wash spending-wise.’
She joins a list of at least 19 definite Republican no votes on the bill.
‘After I heard about the debt ceiling deal, I was a NO. After reading the debt ceiling deal, I am absolutely NO!!’ Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., wrote on Twitter.
‘This “deal” is insanity,’ tweeted Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C. ‘A $4T debt ceiling increase with virtually no cuts is not what we agreed to. Not gonna vote to bankrupt our country. The American people deserve better.’
‘I think it’s a disaster!’ tweeted Matt Rosendale, R-Mont.
McCarthy will have to rely on Democrat ‘yes’ votes to counteract the GOP nos. The New Democrat Coalition of nearly 100 members came out in support of the bill.
