{"id":1824296,"date":"2023-01-26T07:35:10","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T12:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1824296"},"modified":"2023-01-26T07:40:44","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T12:40:44","slug":"house-republicans-dont-seem-serious-about-balancing-the-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-republicans-dont-seem-serious-about-balancing-the-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"House Republicans Don\u2019t Seem Serious About Balancing the Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhouse-republicans-dont-seem-serious-about-balancing-the-budget%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1824296&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/b8530e54-a88c-4a2f-9b25-dbb863d6330b-1052x615-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>House Republicans made it clear that they want to leverage the debt ceiling fight to cut deep into our trillion-dollar budget deficit. They\u2019ve solemnly declared their intention to balance the federal budget in 7-10 years. This is a fantastic goal. And when they figure out how to do it, I\u2019m sure they\u2019ll let us know.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t care if you believe that trade a debt limit raise for massive cuts in expenditure is the right thing. Republicans are not able to reach a zero-deficit world in the manner they want.<\/p>\n<p>No cuts in defense spending? No tax increase? Are you going to cut Social Security and Medicare benefits? It is unlikely that any of these things will happen, as belonging to Republican Party is not a political suicide deal. Future defense spending will be reduced. There will be an increase of taxes and fees. And there aren\u2019t going to be cuts in Medicare or Social Security \u2014 at least not without both parties signing on.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/us-policy\/2023\/01\/24\/gop-social-security-medicare-debt-limit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Washington Post:<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The party has so far focused its attention on reducing federal spending in health care, education and labor programs. This could be by billions of dollar. But some Republicans also have pitched a deeper examination of entitlements, which account for much of the government\u2019s annual spending \u2014 and reflect some of the greatest looming fiscal challenges facing the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Recent calls by GOP lawmakers for special panels to review changes to Medicare and Social Security, which are in serious trouble. This could result in benefits being cut within the next ten year. Others from the party have also outlined more specific plans to cut costs. This includes raising the Social Security retirement ages to 70 years to target younger Americans who are yet to receive federal benefits.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe have no choice but to make hard decisions,\u201d Rep. Kevin Hern, R-Okla., the leader of Republican Study Committee, spoke to the <em>Post.<\/em> \u201cEverybody has to look at everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the Democrats aren\u2019t interested in cutting a single, solitary dollar from any federal program except defense. And that\u2019s a problem. After spending more than $5 trillion since 2021, the Democrats are digging in to protect all the goodies they\u2019ve given to their supporters. They cannot be dislodged easily.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Any plan to rethink entitlements faces strong opposition in Senate Democrats and could not gain meaningful momentum among Republicans in the House. The political problem is exacerbated by the fact that former president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2023\/01\/20\/trump-house-republicans-social-security-medicare\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DonaldTrump waded into the debate<\/a> Friday, he warned his party publicly about cutting \u201ca single penny from Medicare or Social Security.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Democrats have been harsh in their criticisms and said that millions of Americans could have their benefits cut by the new House GOP majority. As President Biden prepares to meet with McCarthy about a host of fiscal issues, he stressed that he would not reach a similar deal with Republicans.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Biden continues to insist that he won\u2019t even negotiate with the GOP on spending cuts in exchange for raising the debt ceiling. It may be dangerous and stupid to hold the debt ceiling vote hostage but it\u2019s also dangerous and stupid to refuse to talk to the opposition. Seventy-million people didn&#8217;t vote for Biden during the 2020 election. Arrogant and foolish is to dismiss their representatives because they believe you have a better view of goodness and wisdom.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Related:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/news-and-politics\/catherinesalgado\/2023\/01\/23\/56-of-u-s-voters-prefer-government-shutdown-to-raising-debt-ceiling-n1664215\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">56% of U.S. Voters Prefer Government Shutdown to Raising Debt Ceiling<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Biden will make it to the table. And when he does, the GOP better have some realistic ideas on how to cut the budget deficit \u2014 ideas that don\u2019t include cutting benefits from the two most popular programs offered by the federal government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Republicans made it clear that they want to leverage the debt ceiling fight to cut deep into our trillion-dollar budget deficit. They\u2019ve solemnly declared their intention to balance the federal budget in 7-10 years. This is a fantastic goal. And when they figure out how to do it, I\u2019m sure they\u2019ll let us know. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1824299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[13602,4463,4894,3653,3756],"class_list":["post-1824296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-balancing","tag-budget","tag-dont","tag-house","tag-republicans"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1824296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1824299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1824296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1824296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1824296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}