• argv_minus_one@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    They’ll just give ot away in the next debt ceiling “debate”

    You mean like how they gave it away in the last one?

    Oh wait, Biden played the Republicans like a harpsichord last time they pulled that crap.

    Yeah, stuffing Congress full of actual leftists would be better, but let’s not pretend these Democrats are completely incompetent.

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      Well, if getting defence spending up 3%, capping all non-defence discretion spending, requiring an end date to student loan repayment holds, and actually getting money to the IRS so they can do their job is all Biden “playing him like a harpsichord”… really don’t want to see what him sucking up is like.

      Source: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/05/29/whats-in-the-debt-ceiling-deal-struck-by-biden-and-mccarthy.html

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        getting defence spending up 3%

        Somebody’s gotta do it, and I don’t see the rest of the civilized world chipping in.

        capping all non-defence discretion spending

        Yep, that’s what tends to happen when Americans vote Republican. Protip: don’t vote Republican.

        requiring an end date to student loan repayment holds

        A setback, nothing more. There have been headlines of further attempts to get student debt forgiven, and again, filling Congress with Democrats will get it done.

        actually getting money to the IRS so they can do their job

        Over the vigorous objections of Republican billionaires who desperately don’t want to get caught evading taxes. That’s a big deal.

        really don’t want to see what him sucking up is like.

        You already did see it, in 2017 through 2021. It, uh, was not good.