On Thursday, during a segment of an interview with government-affiliated NPR, White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients stated that President Joe Biden will not negotiate spending cuts in exchange for raising the debt ceiling with Republicans in Congress, as Biden did when he was part of the Obama administration in 2011, because “brinksmanship,” he said, “had major impacts on the economy, on families across the country. And we’re not doing that again.”
So far, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is holding fast on this, and it looks like the House will deliver a budget. If Joe Biden wants to shut the government down, then that is on him. Of course, the misinformation fake news media will blame McCarthy and the Republicans for a government shutdown, but I think the Republicans have played this game way too many times to cave easily.
NPR White House Correspondent Asma Khalid commented on All Things Considered, “I asked Jeff Zients, the White House Chief of Staff, why have you all been so unwilling to negotiate here? Because during the debt limit crisis in 2011, the Obama White House did negotiate with congressional Republicans and spending cuts were part of the conversation.”
She then presented a tape of Zients saying, “If you’re going back a decade, I think the lesson learned was that playing brinksmanship with the full faith and credit…of our country and getting close to a period of default had major impacts on the economy, on families across the country. And we’re not doing that again.”
What full faith and credit? The government has spent us into oblivion. Our inflation rate is still way too high. In fact, experts are warning that the Biden administration clown show may get us into a hyperinflation situation worse than what happened to the Weimar Republic.
“I think the off-ramp is very clear,” Zients added. “It’s the same off-ramp that was taken with no drama when President Trump was in the White House. Take default off the table, like we have every time. Don’t play games with the full faith and credit of the United States. It’s unacceptable. It’s not up for negotiation. And then have the separate discussion around different visions for the future of the country and budgets.”
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNELWhy do we even have a debt limit if we always reach it and then want to raise it? Why can’t the federal government stay under the limit year after year the way the American people do with their own budgets? I can safely argue that about 95% of the spending the federal government does is on programs that are 100% unconstitutional. Anything that is not listed in the 18 enumerated powers found in Article I, Section 8 of the US Constitution, or a power found within an amendment to the Constitution, is illegitimate.
It’s all nonsense from this administration as it usually is. The House constitutionally has the power over money. Most people call it the “power of the purse.” For the Biden administration to claim there will be no negotiations after they completely screwed up our economy denies belief in a Benevolent Being. I would add closing the border to the negotiation because we are spending billions of dollars each year to take care of third-world illegal aliens that the Biden administration courted to come here.
