Former Vice President Mike Pence issued a statement ripping through the new bipartisan budget deal like ‘smoke and mirrors’ as House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and his lieutenants race to line up the votes in an attempt to adopt it.
Pence, who served in the House Republican leadership before becoming governor of Indiana and joining Donald Trump in the White House, pursued the deal in a statement from his nonprofit Advancing American Freedom.
He said the deal’s “small reforms” would weaken the national army.
His criticism comes a day after Florida Governor Ron DeSantis trashed the plan saying the nation would still be “steering toward bankruptcy”. Pence is expected to formally enter the race for the White House soon, joining other Republicans who are jostling to try to remove some of Trump’s mass support from the GOP base.
“The United States is looking at a debt crisis in the next 25 years, driven by rights, and no one in Washington, DC wants to talk about it,” Pence said.
Joining the crowd among the presidential candidates is former UN ambassador Nikki Haley. “The best way to solve Washington’s spending addiction is to elect people who weren’t part of the problem,” she tweeted.
“Adding at least $4 trillion to the US national debt of $31 trillion over two years without significantly cutting spending is no way to handle our country’s fiscal affairs. Business as usual is no won’t do the job.
Former Vice President Mike Pence says a budget deal between President Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy ‘uses Washington’s smoke and mirror games to make small reforms’
The poor reviews come after McCarthy said he spoke with Trump, who urged him to get a good deal, during negotiations.
Pence continued: The ‘Congress’ debt-limiting deal doesn’t just kick the box out on the road, it uses Washington’s smoke-and-mirror games to make small reforms while weakening our military at a time of growing threats from foreign adversaries.
“It’s time to get honest with the American people and bring everyone together to restore our nation’s fiscal integrity.
“By ignoring the drivers of our national debt and avoiding honest conversations with the American people, President Biden and the Washington establishment continue to push the burden of debt onto the backs of our grandchildren, and the people American deserves better.”
Pence, who campaigned in Iowa last week, is expected to formally announce his presidential bid
Members of the House Freedom Caucus (LR) Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL), Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC), Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), Rep. Michael Cloud (R-TX) and Rep. Dan Bishop (R-NC) blasted the budget deal on Tuesday
President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy of California brokered the deal, which suspends the debt limit until January 2025
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says the nation is still ‘on the verge of bankruptcy’ after an agreement to suspend the debt ceiling and freeze spending at 2023 levels, with spending expected to rise 1% the next day. Next year. He blasted the deal on Monday
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy must now muster the votes to push the plan through the House. He takes heat from House Tories on the deal. The House Rules Committee was due to meet on the bill on Tuesday
President Kevin McCarthy unveiled the 99-page bill raising the debt ceiling to avoid US default
Pence chaired the conservative Republican study committee while in Congress.
A few days ago, he acknowledged the role of the Trump administration in increasing the country’s $31 trillion debt.
The trillions of dollars we’ve allocated to families, businesses and health care in this country during Covid – that’s what the government is for in times of national emergency,’ Pence said. BNC News.
“We could have controlled spending better under our administration,” he said.
This statement hinted at how the politics of debt limit battles can change depending on who is in power. Trump secured debt ceiling increases from Democrats in Congress.
DeSantis voted for a debt ceiling increase as part of the 2018 bipartisan budget bill.
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the comments came as conservative members of the House Freedom Caucus lined up to oppose the bipartisan deal, which suspends the federal debt ceiling until January 2025, freezes next year’s funding at levels of 2023 and includes a 1% increase for 2024 for non-defence related programs.
