{"id":1940490,"date":"2023-05-29T21:38:02","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T01:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/all-major-congress-leaders-signal-support-for-debt-ceiling-bill-despite-backlash\/"},"modified":"2023-05-29T21:40:25","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T01:40:25","slug":"all-major-congress-leaders-signal-support-for-debt-ceiling-bill-despite-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/all-major-congress-leaders-signal-support-for-debt-ceiling-bill-despite-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress leaders support debt ceiling bill despite backlash."},"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\">16<\/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%2Fall-major-congress-leaders-signal-support-for-debt-ceiling-bill-despite-backlash%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=1940490&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>Major Congressional Leaders Signal Support for McCarthy&#8217;s Debt Ceiling Deal<\/h2>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0529\/1367e5d3-cf05-4ea6-ac19-1eb9f2d91382\/audio.mp3?length=2236365&#038;duration=186\"><\/div>\n<p>All major congressional leaders have signaled their support for Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy\u2019s (R-Calif.) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/we-have-to-de-weaponize-manchin-chides-schumer-for-hammering-republicans-after-debt-ceiling-vote\/\" title=\"\u2018We Have To De-Weaponize\u2019: Manchin Chides Schumer For Hammering Republicans After Debt Ceiling Vote\">debt ceiling deal<\/a> despite backlash from members of both parties.<\/p>\n<h3>The Deal<\/h3>\n<p>On May 27, after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/heres-how-joe-manchin-kyrsten-sinema-fare-in-their-own-states\/\" title=\"Here\u2019s How Joe Manchin, Kyrsten Sinema Fare In Their Own States\">months-long standoff<\/a>, McCarthy announced that he and President Joe Biden had reached \u201can agreement in principle\u201d to raise the debt ceiling \u201cthat\u2019s worthy of the American people.\u201d In addition to raising the debt ceiling, the bill would cap non-defense spending at its previous levels, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mccarthy-confident-he-can-win-enough-votes-for-tentative-debt-ceiling-deal\/\" title=\"McCarthy sure he can secure enough votes for tentative debt ceiling agreement.\">enhance work requirements<\/a> for government assistance, and reclaim unspent COVID-19 relief funds, among other measures.<\/p>\n<h3>Criticism from Both Sides<\/h3>\n<p>Since then, most congressional leaders have signaled support for the deal, dubbed the Fiscal Responsibility Act, even as it faces criticism from both the left and the right.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For progressives like Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), leader of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, the package is too right-wing.<\/li>\n<li>The right-wing of the GOP, likewise, has decried the deal as a \u201csurrender\u201d to the left, saying it concedes too much to Democrats.<\/li>\n<li>The House Freedom Caucus, a powerful force in the House GOP, has also signaled it\u2019s against the deal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Reps. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), Chip Roy (R-Texas), Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), Dan Bishop (R-N.C.), and Ralph Norman (R-S.C.), among others, have each said they won\u2019t support the package.<\/p>\n<h3>Leadership Support<\/h3>\n<p>But despite bipartisan discontent with the package, major congressional leaders have each signaled their support for it.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>McCarthy, who led GOP negotiations with Democrats on the package, said of the measure \u201cthere\u2019s so much in this that\u2019s positive.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.), GOP House Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), and Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) called it \u201ca historic series of wins\u201d in a statement.<\/li>\n<li>House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) was noncommittal. However, he suggested that the bill would be instrumental in \u201cavoiding a catastrophic default,\u201d and suggested he expects Democrat support for the package.<\/li>\n<li>Reports also claim that Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), the former House majority whip, has been rallying support for the package behind-the-scenes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Despite criticism from both sides, the debt ceiling deal proposed by Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy has received support from major congressional leaders. The deal includes measures such as capping non-defense spending and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jeffries-noncommittal-on-democrat-support-for-debt-ceiling-deal\/\" title=\"Jeffries doesn't confirm Democrat support for debt ceiling deal.\">enhancing work requirements<\/a> for government assistance. While some progressives and right-wing members of the GOP have voiced their opposition, McCarthy and other leaders have praised the deal as a positive step forward. With the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/all-major-congress-leaders-signal-support-for-debt-ceiling-bill-despite-backlash\/\" title=\"Congress leaders support debt ceiling bill despite backlash.\">debt ceiling deadline looming<\/a>, it remains to be seen whether the package will receive enough support to pass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congressional leaders from both parties have expressed their approval of Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy&#8217;s (R-Calif.) debt ceiling agreement with President Joe Biden, despite opposition from some members. The deal, which was reached after a lengthy standoff, has been deemed &#8220;worthy of consideration&#8221; by McCarthy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":1940491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[4265,10142,4402,5487,5061,3723],"class_list":["post-1940490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-backlash","tag-ceiling","tag-congress","tag-debt","tag-leaders","tag-support"],"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\/1940490","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\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1940490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1940491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1940490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1940490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1940490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}