{"id":1935953,"date":"2023-05-23T01:40:27","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T05:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mccarthy-frustrated-with-bidens-delays-on-debt-issue-says-excessive-spending-must-stop\/"},"modified":"2023-05-23T01:43:14","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T05:43:14","slug":"mccarthy-frustrated-with-bidens-delays-on-debt-issue-says-excessive-spending-must-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mccarthy-frustrated-with-bidens-delays-on-debt-issue-says-excessive-spending-must-stop\/","title":{"rendered":"McCarthy upset with Biden&#8217;s delay on debt, calls for end to overspending."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><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%2Fmccarthy-frustrated-with-bidens-delays-on-debt-issue-says-excessive-spending-must-stop%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=1935953&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 Calls for an End to Democratic Spending Addiction<\/h2>\n<h3>Republicans Demand Spending Cuts in Debt Ceiling Negotiations<\/h3>\n<p>House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has stated that Democrats&#8217; addiction to spending must be stopped. He made this comment to reporters on Capitol Hill on May 22, outlining the primary objective of negotiations with President Joe Biden over increasing the nation&#8217;s $31.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-reject-matched-spending-cuts-setting-up-debt-ceiling-showdown-with-gop\/\" title=\"Dems Reject Matched Spending Cuts, Setting Up Debt Ceiling Showdown With GOP\">4 trillion debt ceiling<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy has been clear since January that Congress would not do without an agreement to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mccarthy-frustrated-with-bidens-delays-on-debt-issue-says-excessive-spending-must-stop\/\" title=\"McCarthy upset with Biden's delay on debt, calls for end to overspending.\">cut federal discretionary spending<\/a>. Republicans passed the Limit, Save, Grow Act in April, which attached several conditions to an increase in the debt limit. These included tightening work requirements for some beneficiaries of Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), clawing back unspent COVID-19 relief funds, and loosening permitting requirements on drilling for oil and gas.<\/p>\n<p>The speaker&#8217;s comments indicate that spending cuts are the most critical issue for Republicans. McCarthy previously stated that increased work requirements were also a &#8220;red line&#8221; in negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy expressed frustration that the president delayed entering into talks until recently, creating unnecessary urgency. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has said the nation will reach the debt ceiling on or shortly after June 1 unless it is increased by Congress.<\/p>\n<h3>Conclusion<\/h3>\n<p>Republicans are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-takes-to-the-road-and-stays-on-offense-after-mccarthy-debt-limit-meeting\/\" title=\"Biden takes to the road and stays on offense after McCarthy debt limit meeting\">demanding spending cuts<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-mitch-mcconnell-led-effort-to-trash-bob-dole-aides-career-over-peripheral-tie-to-january-6\/\" title=\"Exclusive \u2014 Mitch McConnell Led Effort to Trash Bob Dole Aide\u2019s Career over Peripheral Tie to January 6\">debt ceiling negotiations<\/a>, with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy calling for an end to Democratic spending addiction. The Limit, Save, Grow Act passed in April attached several conditions to an increase in the debt limit, including tightening work requirements for some beneficiaries of Medicaid and SNAP, clawing back unspent COVID-19 relief funds, and loosening permitting requirements on drilling for oil and gas. McCarthy has previously stated that increased work requirements were also a &#8220;red line&#8221; in negotiations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) stated that Democrats&#8217; spending addiction must be halted, as negotiations with President Joe Biden over raising the $31.4 trillion debt ceiling begin. McCarthy emphasized this primary objective to reporters on Capitol Hill on May 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1793,"featured_media":1935954,"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":[543],"tags":[3706,3755,5487,10066,3663,27379,14968],"class_list":["post-1935953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-bidens","tag-calls","tag-debt","tag-delay","tag-mccarthy","tag-overspending","tag-upset"],"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\/1935953","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\/1793"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1935953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1935954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1935953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1935953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1935953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}