.GOPMajorityWhip Tom Emmer (R-MN) is confident Republicans’ sweeping bill to reduce spending will pass the House when it comes up for a vote and says that any votes against it would work to “empower” Democrats.
House Majority Whip Tom Emmer is confident Republicans’ sweeping bill to reduce spending will pass the House when it comes up for a vote and says that any votes against it would work to “empower” Democrats.
A no vote “means you empower Joe Biden and Chuck Schumer for a blank check, which is why I’m pretty sure people can express their concerns and everything else, but I think they’ll come around and they’ll be supportive of the bill when we get there.” The bill is packed with conservative priorities to rein in spending in exchange for a debt ceiling increase that would last through about March 2024.blocking President Joe Biden’s student loan bailout, taking back unspent money allocated toward coronavirus, expanding work requirements for welfare recipients, repealing recent IRS funding and certain climate-related portions of the “Inflation Reduction Act,” and limiting discretionary spending growth to one percent per year for ten years.
Still, stalwart conservatives such as House Freedom Caucus chair Rep. Scott Perry and member Rep. Andy Biggs remain noncommittal on voting for the bill.Breitbart News’s Sean Moran he believes Republicans are “pretty close” to passing the bill despite his view that it should contain more “substantial” spending cuts.
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