{"id":1935723,"date":"2023-05-22T21:18:49","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T01:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/at-white-house-mccarthy-reiterates-tax-hikes-off-table-in-debt-ceiling-talks\/"},"modified":"2023-05-22T21:19:57","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T01:19:57","slug":"at-white-house-mccarthy-reiterates-tax-hikes-off-table-in-debt-ceiling-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/at-white-house-mccarthy-reiterates-tax-hikes-off-table-in-debt-ceiling-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"McCarthy confirms no tax hikes in debt ceiling talks at White House."},"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\">24<\/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%2Fat-white-house-mccarthy-reiterates-tax-hikes-off-table-in-debt-ceiling-talks%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=1935723&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--><h2>House Speaker Kevin McCarthy Reiterates Republican Stance on Debt Ceiling<\/h2>\n<p>House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) described his meeting with President Joe Biden on Monday as &#8220;productive,&#8221; but emphasized that Republicans would not consider raising taxes as part of any <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-passes-defense-bill-moves-to-lift-debt-ceiling-after-bipartisan-agreement\/\" title=\"House Passes Defense Bill, Moves To Lift Debt Ceiling After Bipartisan Agreement\">debt ceiling agreement<\/a>. McCarthy stated that the issue is &#8220;spending,&#8221; not &#8220;revenue,&#8221; and that the government should focus on reducing expenditures rather than increasing taxes. When asked if he was willing to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/at-white-house-mccarthy-reiterates-tax-hikes-off-table-in-debt-ceiling-talks\/\" title=\"McCarthy confirms no tax hikes in debt ceiling talks at White House.\">discuss raising revenue<\/a>, McCarthy responded with a firm &#8220;no.&#8221; He also reiterated two other red lines: not passing a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-denies-mccarthy-budget-negotiation-request-stop-playing-games\/\" title=\"White House denies McCarthy budget negotiation request: 'Stop playing games'\">clean debt ceiling bill<\/a>&#8221; and not capping spending for defense. Despite their differences, McCarthy praised Biden&#8217;s team of negotiators for their professionalism and commitment to reaching a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">bipartisan agreement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Key Points:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Republicans will not consider raising taxes as part of any debt ceiling agreement.<\/li>\n<li>McCarthy believes the problem is &#8220;spending,&#8221; not &#8220;revenue.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>McCarthy reiterated two other red lines: not passing a &#8220;clean debt ceiling bill&#8221; and not capping spending for defense.<\/li>\n<li>Biden&#8217;s team of negotiators was praised for their professionalism and commitment to reaching a bipartisan agreement.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) described his meeting with President Joe Biden as &#8220;productive&#8221; but emphasized that Republicans would not support tax hikes in any debt ceiling deal. McCarthy stated that he believes the issue is &#8220;spending,&#8221; not taxes, unlike Biden. He spoke to reporters at the White House after the meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1935724,"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":[538],"tags":[10142,4938,5487,6367,3653,3663,3745,8360,3765],"class_list":["post-1935723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-ceiling","tag-confirms","tag-debt","tag-hikes","tag-house","tag-mccarthy","tag-talks","tag-tax","tag-white"],"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\/1935723","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=1935723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1935724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1935723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1935723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1935723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}