The warning IS plain and to the POINT….
If House Speaker Kevin McCarthy lets his crazies steer themselves into pissing off a shit load of American voters?
He’s screwing Donald Trump also…..
(Who appear’s to be campaigning against the Freedom Caucus?)
There will be NO Defense cuts either….
Nobodies getting rid of the IRS….
Biden’s people told them yesterday….
ALL or NOTHING…..
And so?
That leaves them no option BUT to raise the debt ceiling in the end….
Like some of have said from the jump after the Midterms?
WTF would want McCarthy’s job?
And the Democrats may have won MORE by losing the House….
Former President Donald Trump issued a warning to Republican lawmakers on Friday: Don’t lay a finger on entitlement programs as part of the debt ceiling showdown with the White House.
“Under no circumstances should Republicans vote to cut a single penny from Medicare or Social Security,” Trump said in a video message.
The two-minute video — which goes on to lambaste President Joe Biden over the migration crisis at the southern border — is part of a series of policy announcements put out by his campaign. And it comes amid growing brinkmanship between congressional Republicans and the White House over raising the nation’s debt limit.
Republicans have vowed not to raise the federal government’s borrowing capacity unless Biden makes steep cuts to federal spending, potentially impacting social insurance programs like Social Security and Medicare. Trump’s video is a warning to his fellow party members not to go there. Instead, he suggests targeting foreign aid, cracking down on migration, ending “left wing gender programs from our military,” and “billions being spent on climate extremism.”
“Cut waste, fraud and abuse everywhere that we can find it and there is plenty there’s plenty of it,” Trump says. “But do not cut the benefits our seniors worked for and paid for their entire lives. Save Social Security, don’t destroy it.”…
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Trump’s position echoes his long-held, albeit unorthodox, conviction that the Republican Party should stay away from attaching themselves to entitlement reform. Prior to being elected president, Trump was highly critical of then-Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) for pushing austerity budgets during the Obama years. As a candidate for president, he insisted he would preserve both Medicare and Social Security….
image…NBC News