Kevin McCarthy, Joe Biden to meet on Wednesday on debt ceiling

 It's now official. Kevin McCarthy will meet with Joe Biden on Wednesday at the White House. The two are expected to discuss the raising of the debt ceiling. According to the AP, "The speaker pledged that cuts to Social Security and Medicare would be off the table." Actually, Joe Manchin has raised the topic of reforming Social Security and Medicare. Sen. Manchin has also said that he's willing to meet with Speaker McCarthy about spending cuts and raising the debt ceiling.

There's little doubt that Biden will stick with his my-way-or-the-highway approach, insisting that he'll only accept a clean debt ceiling bill. Similarly, there's little doubt that Kevin McCarthy will insist that any debt ceiling bill will include future spending cuts. The AP report says "McCarthy, R-Calif., said he wants to address spending cuts along with raising the debt limit, even though the White House has ruled out linking those two issues together as the government tries to avoid a potentially devastating financial default."

Speaker McCarthy has stated that "Social Security and Medicare" cuts are off the table, which has defanged Biden's accusations against so-called extreme MAGA Republicans. Biden won't get a clean debt ceiling bill nor should he. Biden and his Democrat allies have spent like drunken sailors. Waiting for the FY2024 appropriations bills is a fool's errand. What happens if, as usual, Schumer doesn't pass a budget? What happens if Sen. Schumer and Cocaine Mitch team up to pass another omnibus bill?

Speaker McCarthy, BTW, had a great day Sunday. Appearing on CBS's Face the Nation, he put Margaret Brennan in her place:

Brennan tried playing a one-sided game of gotcha. Instead, Speaker McCarthy turned the tables, asking Brennan why she didn't ask about Jamie Raskin or Bennie Thompson questioning election results. The best she could do is say that they did that in 2000 or thereabouts as though questioning election results has a time limit. Where's it written that a person who questions the 2020 election is an election denier but someone who objected in 2000 is a patriot?

Speaker McCarthy nailed her on her double standard. In any case, the Constitution permits the questioning of a state's electors. Both sides are misusing that provision of the Constitution but it isn't like any of the objections overturned the eldction. That means that the Constitution worked as intended. No harm, no foul.

Since officially becoming Speaker, Kevin McCarthy has been quite the assertive leader. The fight he went through might have something to do with that. McCarthy has lots of tests ahead of him but I like the start he's off to.

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