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The obvious answer to the Republican Party's hostage taking & cruel budget [1]

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Date: 2023-04-27

Riding with Biden who has truth and ethics on his side and empathy in his budget.

McCarthy tied the debt limit raise to other conditions. The Republicans raised the debt ceil limit three times and increased the deficit by cutting taxes on the wealthy and big corporations. They added twenty five percent of the total national debt during Trump's term. No republican president has reduced the deficit since PRIOR to Reagan.

Republicans have led us into the last three serious economic contractions, recessions: President George H W Bush, President George W Bush, and President Trump. They left presidents who were and are members of the Democratic Party to rescue and salvage the economy after the previous republican presidents laid waste to it. Those presidents who helped rescue the economy are President Bill Clinton, President Obama, and President Biden.

The budget put forward by President Biden who has already reduced the deficit also reduces the deficit. So, President Biden supports reducing the deficit, but by doing it in a responsible way, not by massive cuts to the social safety net that the poor and lower middle class need to survive. However, suddenly once again, now that the president who is a member of the Democratic Party has rescued the economy, the republicans are deficit hawks. They are tying the raising of the debt ceiling to passing an irresponsible, immoral, unethical, and cruel budget that would harm the lower middle class and the poor.

However, this is NOT a scenario where the republicans on one side are for being responsible and reducing the deficit while raising the debt ceiling and the Democratic Party raising the debt ceiling but not being willing to offer a budget that reduces the deficit. Rather, republicans have shown themselves to not actually care about reducing the deficit historically; history makes clear that this is purely and only a political ploy. Both political parties offer budgets that reduce the deficit, but Biden's plan does so responsibly and doesn't tie raising the debt ceiling to it unlike the republicans.

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