HOUSE SPEAKER KEVIN MCCARTHY (R-CA) SAYS HE DOESN’T PLAN TO RAISE THE DEBT CEILING, BELIEVES CONGRESS WILL AGREE TO A SPENDING CAP

SPEAKER MCCARTHY: Let's take a moment and realize why did we get here? I mean, if you look just in the last four years that Democrats were in the majority, they increased discretionary spending by 30% when Republicans were in majority for the eight years prior. They didn't increase it by $1. So that's $400 billion a year. We spend more. In the last two years, they have taken us from spending 4 trillion to 7 trillion. For the White House to say they won't even look at it, that they can't find one penny out of a dollar of eliminating waste. I think they're just trying to put us into bankruptcy. What I am saying, and it's my conversation with the president on our first conversation, let's sit down together. Let's look at the places that we can change our behavior. The first thing I would say is, why don't you make the House and Senate both produce a budget? They don't produce a budget. So, you know, they're wasting money. If we go back to 22 levels, that was what we were spending just two or three weeks ago. That's not cutting defense by 75 billion. Does defense getting more than $800 billion? Are there areas that I think they could be more efficient in? Yeah. Eliminate all the money spent on wokeism. Eliminate all the money that they're trying to find different fuels and they're worried about the environment to go through. I want our men and...

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