House Speaker Fight Foreshadows Looming Debt Ceiling Battle

The Gridlock can paralyze House Republicans They have been trying to elect a new leader for the past week Speaker This could be a hint of what’s to come. Party moderates and conservatives are expected to clash in the months ahead about raising the debt ceiling, and reining government spending. 

Although Recently elected Speaker The House Kevin McCarthy won the election over a small, but determined group of candidates. House Freedom Caucus members, his slim GOP majority in the House If and when conservatives make it clear, the vulnerable will be there As some predict, the party will rebel once more to reduce its debt, in an effort not to lose its top priority. 

Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) Told Just The News This week, it is important to reexamine the practice of racking up debt through massive spending bills and fix it quickly.  

“There is a lot of good faith negotiation on how to make this institution work better so that it’s not broke,” He stated, “so we do not have an Omnibus Bill on”. Christmas Eve That’s a staggering 3,000 pages, which nobody has the time to read and is filled with terrible earmarks. There It is important to know how to do this. Congress works and how to make it work a better.”

In An interview on the John Solomon Reports This week’s podcast Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) Also, he stressed the need for urgent budgetary reform and a return of fiscal responsibility.

“You need to involve the American public in what government spends and what we fund through their elected representatives,” Johnson, who was reelected to third place Senate term in the recent midterms.The You can do this by restoring a process. And This is the process: Pass A budget must be passed. If it is not balanced, the debt ceiling can be used to increase it in the same way it was originally designed. Attach to it fiscal controls to help you manage the future. Next, you will use that budget for an appropriation process.

“There’ll still be massive spending bills, I mean there’ll be hundreds of billions of dollars — just one of them — but at least it’s more under control.”

Johnson He said that he wasn’t “freaked out at all about” The long-running impasse over the election a new leader House Speaker, consider it a small price to be paid “if it results,” he said, “in the leadership, no matter who that is, embracing principles that are conservative, embracing and guaranteeing — an ironclad guarantee — that they will pass a budget, use the debt ceiling the way it was meant to be used, and bring up all the appropriation bills to deliver to Chuck Schumer’s Senate. 

“And then here in the Senate, our responsibility would have to be use every parliamentary maneuver that we have at our disposal to bring those appropriation bills up in front of the Senate and just start a better process. This [existing process] is so horribly broken, so grotesquely dysfunctional, and we’re mortgaging our kids’ futures as a result.”

In Interviews about the “Just The News No Noise” Television show Reps. Ralph Norman (R-VA) Austin Scott (R-Ga.) It was suggested that fiscal conservatives are in the House They will be prepared to go to the ground to enforce fiscal discipline

“I’ve talked to other congressmen, [and] they want to make a dent in the spending that’s taking place,” Norman Tuesday Despite the impasse regarding the election of a House speaker. “And the only way you do it, is do what we’re doing,” He was referring to the efforts of conservative holdouts to extract concessions in return for voting for McCarthy.

“And the fact that in nine months,” He continued, “we’ll be facing another issue with the debt, you know: Are we going to raise the debt? Are you willing to shut the government down? And if the answer is they’re not willing to shut the government down? Just because it’s an election year? We’re gonna get an answer to that. Oh, we’ll sit here all night, for months …”

McCarthy must “have a blueprint for what he’s going to do, and economic security is national security, and we need somebody that’s gonna stop this Biden administration from putting us on to total socialism,” Norman.

In An interview Thursday, Scott The new leverage conservatives have accumulated to enforce fiscal discipline was lauded. “We’ve changed the rules on the conference, it now requires 50% of the conference, the Republicans, to say yes to a spending bill, to say yes to a debt limit increase,” He explained. “When I listen to other members … say, ‘McCarthy will have a straitjacket on’ — we put the rules in place so that the Senate cannot take advantage of the American citizens the way they’ve been doing for years.”

While He is comfortable with McCarthy’s ability and confidence to lead the team. House GOP conference Scott He said that he is placing his trust in “the rules that we put in place in protecting the American citizens from us continuing to spend a trillion dollars more than we have to spend.” 

In Interview Friday On the John Solomon Reports podcast, former Michigan Republican Rep. Pete Hoekstra The GOP runs a great risk if it doesn’t receive budgetary concessions Democrats Before you vote on an increase to the debt ceiling.

“The Republicans are going to have a couple of chances where they’ve got the leverage, and the debt ceiling vote is one,” The former said: House Intelligence Committee chairman. “The The next one will be an Omnibus or a Spending Bill for 2024. Those These are the things and if you have the Republicans They’re in trouble if they vote for either of those votes.

“They’re gonna have to exact a hard price out of the Senate and out of the Biden administration that really demonstrates to the American people that they’re serious about getting spending under control.”

Republicans You have to “win the argument” Because the country cannot continue to be independent. “sustain a $30 trillion debt that is bigger than the American economy and that’s driving inflation,” Hoekstra. “So they’ve got to tell the American people why this is important for them, to get federal spending under control.”

Longtime Tax reduction activist Grover NorquistAccording to a spokesman for the government, the best way to limit spending is to limit taxation.”When you say ‘No’ to tax increases, you actually do rein in spending at the state level, at the local level and at the federal level,” He said Thursday On John Solomon Reports. “Even with the capacity to run deficits. You still bring spending down from where it would be otherwise. And the Republicans have not faltered on that line in the sand. Taxes are not going up. And that is the beginning of the fight.”

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