RINO McCarthy Caves On His Debt-Ceiling ‘Deal,’ He Sold Us Out
UPDATE: Hear the House Freedom Caucus blast the $4Trillion debt ceiling deal.
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Apparently McCarthy was no match for the corrupt, diaper-wearing, cracked, child-sniffing mental patient.
WATCH: @RepChipRoy SLAMS the terrible deal to raise the debt ceiling
“Not one Republican should vote for this deal — it is a bad deal. No one sent us here to borrow an additional $4 trillion to get absolutely nothing in return.” pic.twitter.com/45r1cQZk8O
— Tea Party Patriots (@TPPatriots) May 30, 2023
McCarthy’s debt-ceiling deal with Biden comes up short on his vow to reign in IRS
By Miranda Devine, NY Post, May 28, 2023:
Kevin McCarthy trumpeted a debt-ceiling deal Sunday, but increasing debt another $4 trillion with minimal concessions is nothing to boast about.
To be fair, the House speaker has a razor slim majority and Republicans don’t control the Senate, where Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and his sidekick Lindsey Graham have announced that the only thing they care about is Ukraine.
But McCarthy’s one deal breaker should have been his promise to defund President Biden’s massive $80 billion to turbocharge an already weaponized IRS.
This was the totemic centerpiece of his pitch to become speaker.
It was the most memorable promise of the Republicans’ midterm campaign to win back the House.
It struck a chord with voters, wary of funding a new “army” of armed IRS agents to harass middle-class families and small business owners and abuse their powers to target political dissidents, Soviet-style.
“Our very first bill will repeal the funding for 87,000 new IRS agents,” McCarthy vowed.
“You see, we believe government should be to help you, not go after you.”
Sure enough, the House voted 221-210 to repeal the extra IRS funding.
“Promises made,” the newly minted speaker said Jan. 9, banging the gavel on the first bill of the Republican-controlled House.
What about promises kept?
In the debt-ceiling deal outlined Sunday and due to be inked later this week, McCarthy has allowed the lion’s share of that extra IRS funding to remain unmolested: preserving $78.1 billion of the $80 billion.
Overpromising and underdelivering is what turns voters off the GOP.
You don’t mount a powerful six-month fear campaign about 87,000 new, armed IRS agents ready to break down people’s doors, and then meekly capitulate at the first sign of resistance.
Even if those fears were exaggerated, your credibility rests on delivering a lot more than 2% of what you promised.
In any case the fears about a weaponized IRS targeting Biden’s opponents are very real.
If anything, the IRS is worse today than it was during the Obama administration, when Lois Lerner presided over the targeted harassment of Tea Party groups and other conservatives.
Not a single IRS employee was held accountable for the scandal. Lerner retired on a full pension without even a slap on the wrist.
This is the same IRS which went after journalist Matt Taibbi last December, three weeks after he started reporting on the so-called “Twitter Files,” which revealed that censorship on the social-media platform had been coordinated by federal government agencies such as the FBI and CIA.
AUTHOR
Pamela Geller
RELATED TWEET:
RINOs will pass a do-nothing bill saying they don’t want 87,000 IRS agents knowing it’s DOA in the Senate
But when they actually have the leverage to get it done, they concede and keep 98% of the new IRS agents
They think we’re stupid
https://t.co/fOfboELyPb— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) May 28, 2023
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