Republicans were not pleased with Biden's entirely accurate observations on deficit reductions. (via MaddowBlog)
To hear Republicans tell it, federal policymakers have no choice but to reduce the deficit and move the budget closer to balance. It is the dubious idea at the heart of the GOP’s latest debt ceiling crisis: Republicans take fiscal concerns so seriously that they’re prepared to threaten Americans with deliberate harm in order to achieve their goals through extortion.that the national debt is “the greatest threat to our future.
As a substantive matter, that’s plainly ridiculous, though it was against this backdrop that President Joe Biden seemed eager to engage on this point during his State of the Union address. At times, the Democrat effectively positioned himself as the official who actually has credibility on deficit reduction — and he invited Republicans to join him, rather than the other way around.“In the last two years, my administration has cut the deficit by more than $1.
Republicans were not pleased with the observations, though they had the benefit of being accurate. Biden added soon after: “Let’s sit down together and discuss out mutual plans together. Let’s do that. I can tell you the plan I’m going to show you is going to cut the deficit by another $2 trillion — and I won’t cut a single bit of Medicare or Social Security. ... We’ll pay for it the way we talked about, by making sure that the wealthy and big corporations pay their fair share.”
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