Emerald Coast Times

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Congressman Matt Gaetz (FL-01) released the following statement prior to voting “no” on the Biden-McCarthy Debt Limit deal:

“After tonight, only four Republicans will remain in Congress who have never voted to raise the Debt Limit. I’m proud to be among them. Though the Fiscal Hawk is an increasingly endangered species in Washington, we find ourselves hunted nonetheless.

The Biden-McCarthy Debt Limit deal papers over America’s problems with unknowable sums of debt, gaslighting reckless inflation-inducing spending for years. As Democrats correctly note, it locks in the radical policy choices they have made. Those choices should be reversed, not cast in cement by Republicans. 

The purported policy ‘wins’ are largely cosmetic budget gimmicks or waivable at Biden’s whims. As lawmakers have taken the 72 hours to read this bill, it is no surprise that Republicans moved away from the proposal as Democrats have come to love it evermore. Even the Establishment GOP celebrated ‘work requirements’ being traded for reforms that make the SNAP program more costly for taxpayers and more accessible to the homeless.

We can and must do better,” Congressman Gaetz said.

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