#debt ceiling

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

If you or anyone you care about is relying on:

Food stamps/SNAP/EBT

SSI/SSDI/social security

a tax refund not yet received as of May 2023

a government employee salary

Medicaid

Medicare

Pell grants that have not yet been disbursed

Or anything else paid out by the US federal government—

You need to be aware of what's happening with the debt ceiling!

Because any or all of the items listed above might not be funded right away in June 2023.

The US government is increasingly looking like it will run out of money on or around June 1st, and no one has yet made the rules about which bills WILL get paid when that happens.

The usual way the gov stops this from happening is being blocked by Republicans who insist they won't let the problem be fixed until programs keeping people alive are cut. (They won't cut corporate subsidies though.)

You and people you care about could be impacted by this.

Please save back any money you can, fill your prescriptions now, and look up news about the debt ceiling.

#current events #us politics #thatdiabolicalfeminist #debt ceiling

[liberalsarecool]

'Not paying for things you bought' is core Republican value. The party of the IOU.

Look at Reagan, Bush 41, Bush 43, and Trump.

#debt ceiling #robert reich

[odinsblog]

Just so we are all really clear: Republicans are using the manufactured debt ceiling “crisis” as a bargaining chip, threatening to blow up the U.S. (and world?) economy unless Biden caves in to cutting things like food benefits for women, children, the poor and the working poor. Got it? That’s their deal—either eviscerate the social safety net, or economy go boom!

No doubt, a lot of liberals are pressuring Biden to acquiesce, because 1) the economy will absolutely positively go boom! and 2) because they will blame Biden if the economy crashes

BUT..! Here’s the thing: If Biden does cave in and give Republicans even a little bit of what they are demanding, I fuckn promise you that in October and November of next year, Republican ads are going to be like: “Vote for Trump! Remember how Biden cut food benefits for women and children? Trump won’t do that”

And it will not matter how many 8k high quality videos you have showing that it was really Republicans who took the economy hostage and demanded those cuts. By time the general election rolls around in ‘24, Republicans will be airing ChatGPT AI political ads where it looks like Biden was the one asking for all the cuts to SNAP and demanding ridiculously harder work requirements

Believe that!!

Did you even see those ignorant charlatans eating from Trump’s hands on CNN?? These are bomb throwers. They enjoy blowing up the economy, especially when it hurts poor people! You cannot in good faith make any policy decision about what to do based off of what Republican voters “might think” when it’s election time! They don’t “think” AT ALL, and even if they did, they still do not care! They’re unscrupulous deplorables. They will always always always find a way to blame Biden and the Democrats, no matter what, so Biden may as well go on and do what’s right while he can, and try actually fighting against these cartoonishly evil Republicans

AND..! Do I even need to remind anyone what happens when you cave in to bullies?? If Biden caves now, then Republicans will bully every Democrat from here on out, and the programs they take hostage next time will be Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid

Caving in to the whims of Kevin pickme! McCarthy and Marjorie Traitor Greene is bad politics, and it will only get worse in the future if Biden folds now

#politics #kevin mccarthy #joe biden #republicans #debt ceiling #bullies #odin rants #hostage negotiations 101 #debt crisis #national debt #manufactured crisis #bullying

[porterdavis]

#robert reich #debt ceiling #gqp hypocrisy

[commonsensecommentary]

More debt. And more debt. And still more debt. Soon enough, America as we know it is dead.

#leadership #government #biden #debt #debt ceiling #debt crisis #national debt #government spending #borrow and spend #save america

[not-safe-for-democracy]

#republicans #republican hypocrisy #debt ceiling

[akonoadham]

#us government #debt ceiling

[gwydionmisha]

Now might be a good time to contact all your Congress Critters in both houses with support for a clean raise of the Debt Ceiling.  Shore up blue, castigate red.

If you can't safely contact them in person, here are some other options:

Call the Capitol Switchboard at [phone] and ask to be connected to the representative of your choice.

Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resist.bot/

#Debt Ceiling #Ilhan Omar #Social Safety Net #Resist #News

[thoughtportal]

Debt Ceiling

#tiktok #debt ceiling #tax cuts for the rich #economy #economics #Manufacturing Consent #budget cuts #unemployment #health insurance #wealth inequality #wealth gap #hoarding wealth #generational wealth #wealth #income inequality #inequality #recession #economic crisis #us taxes #taxes

[mysharona1987]

#News #democrats #republicans #politics #debt ceiling

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

Infuriating that American politicians are off for their long holiday weekend still refusing to fund the most basic, insufficient, miserly, ALREADY APPROVED safeguards for the poorest and most vulnerable living here...

over a fight to provide EVEN LESS in order to give extra money to oppressive corporations and maintain the richest military in history doing evil on an incomprehensible scale

#people are going to fucking die #it now looks like the gov won't run out of money until June 5 at least 🙃 just an estimate of course #literally every single thing this disgusting empire does has literally the worst priorities possible #debt ceiling #current events #us politics

[liberalsarecool]

The debt ceiling gives the shameless and intellectually dishonest too much power.

#debt ceiling

[odinsblog]

Imagine you and your Republican coworkers went out to a restaurant for lunch, ordered from the menu (you had the soup dejour, they had the most expensive lobster on the menu), and ate your meals

When the check comes, Republicans say they refuse to pay (for the meals they’ve already eaten!), UNLESS everyone agrees to starve the homeless and rob the poor the next time you eat here

That’s what is happening

I know that the hypocrisy and the cruelty is the point with Republicans, but it needs to be noted that they never had a problem with raising the debt limit when Trump was in the White House and blowing holes in the deficit to give tax cuts to billionaires

#politics #republicans #gop hypocrisy #debt ceiling #federal debt #debt limit #obstructionists

[porterdavis]

#debt ceiling #gqp hypocrisy

[commonsensecommentary]

“In the short term, we cannot afford the federal government we now have, and brutal cuts are inevitable, so the first question is whether we make the necessary reductions in the size and scope of government for ourselves—or take the stupid and cowardly route by waiting for a fiscal apocalypse to do the job for us.”

(From my blog archive)

#leadership #government #save america #debt ceiling #debt crisis #national debt #$34 trillion national debt #Debt spiral #Government we can afford

[tomorrowusa]

Biden’s superpower is that he keeps getting opponents to underestimate him.

He called Putin’s bluff in Ukraine. And even before the invasion began the White House allowed the declassification of intelligence which revealed Russian plans to stage a fake incident (like the 1939 Gleiwitz incident) to justify Putin’s invasion.

Republicans went into the debt ceiling negotiations believing too much of their own propaganda about Biden. in the end, close to nobody is concluding that Speaker Kevin McCarthy came out ahead on this deal.  

Edward Luce wrote at The Financial Times (archived)...

Rarely in the history of fiscal brinkmanship has so much noise been made by so many Republicans with so little to show for it. The result is a win for Biden that prudence stops him from celebrating.

[ ... ]

McCarthy, along with many others, serially underestimates Biden. In spite of being owned by the nonagenarian Rupert Murdoch, Fox News and its imitators are obsessed with the octogenarian Biden’s alleged senility. “Republicans got outsmarted by a president who can’t find his pants,” tweeted Nancy Mace, a Republican lawmaker who said she will vote against the deal.

In practice, Biden played the game of chicken well. He took it seriously by flying home early from his Asian trip in mid-May. In the interests of stopping a default, he resisted the temptation to call his opponents pyromaniacs. Biden’s age and limited energy may even have helped. It is useful to have a calm temperament in the midst of a crisis.

In an age of superhero action films, having a calm and measured temperament is often overlooked as an advantage.

#joe biden #biden owns republicans #debt ceiling #kevin mccarthy #republicans underestimate biden #edward luce #election 2024 #john darkow