“Both sides are at fault here,” says South Carolina congresswoman Nancy Mace. Mace spoke with Fox News offering a candid bipartisan critique of the current debt limit issue. “When you look at President Trump, he added almost $8 trillion to the debt when he was President. President Biden has added almost $5 trillion.”
Mace says: “Both sides need to come together. The President needs to negotiate with Republicans and fix the mess that they both created.”
South Carolina Republican Congresswoman @RepNancyMace to guest host @SandraSmithFox : I want to know there's a plan to balance the budget over the next ten or 15 years but that's probably mission impossible pic.twitter.com/5qCLrOqZuP
— Neil Cavuto (@TeamCavuto) April 25, 2023
As Mace calls for both parties to get down to brass tacks, Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy preps his GOP coalition, such as it is, for a debt ceiling showdown while trying to extract spending cut concessions and cut programs — including the planned hiring of new IRS agents to collect revenue.
The looming showdown threatens to throw financial markets into a perilous uncertainty mode, as Hillary Clinton, among others, has warned. Mace acknowledges that while the debt ceiling may be a convenient trigger for talk about the budget, the two aren’t directly related and real budget talk is still not happening. [Related: Biden Trolls Kevin McCarthy For Keeping GOP Plan Secret]
“I don’t understand why we’re not having a conversation about the budget,” Mace says, adding that some “in leadership don’t want to have that conversation right now. I want to know that there’s a plan…”
It’s not the first time lately that Mace has told her colleagues they were off track, and that it was a danger to the party.
Republican Rep. Nancy Mace on @ThisWeekABC warned her conservative colleagues that they would "lose huge" with voters if they continue passing strict abortion bans at the state level rather than finding what she called a "middle ground" on the issue.https://t.co/XxHmfrb9AN
— ABC News (@ABC) April 23, 2023
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