I have zero confidence in the Republican party to represent conservative Americans or to do what is right for the country. I no longer expect them to put up a fight against bigger government interests nor to ignore the howls from the Left should they try reversing our careening headlong mad dash into economic disaster.
They’re the opposition failure party.
After getting our hopes up, just a little, with the fight of Kevin McCarthy’s election as House Leader, we now see just what the man is made of and it’s just as we feared. He’s a lot of talk and little action to back up what matters. Remember this?
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), speaking in Pittsburgh on Friday to promote the House Republicans’ legislative agenda, said a GOP-controlled House would introduce legislation that would block the IRS from receiving funds from the Inflation Reduction Act that President Joe Biden signed into law in August.
“On that very first day that we’re sworn in, you’ll see that it all changes. Because on our very first bill, we’re going to repeal 87,000 IRS agents. Our job is to work for you, not go after you,” McCarthy said.
McCarthy’s election pledge marks the latest in a series of commitments made by congressional Republicans to eliminate the multi-year IRS funding that passed by the slimmest of margins.
They couldn’t get the bill passed because the Senate refused it.
But when again presented with an opportunity to back Democrats into a corner and demand that the IRS funding get cut, here’s what we got.
CUTS TO IRS FUNDING BUT 87,000 NEW AGENTS WILL STAY
Republicans are not happy with the spending bill passed last year to massively increase the money for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) – and mainly the part allocated for the hiring of tens of thousands of more agents to audit Americans’ taxes and crack down on tax fraud.
In the debt ceiling deal, McCarthy targeted money that the IRS was allotted by cutting $21 billion of the $80 billion.
Many members of McCarthy’s party, however, say that the bill doesn’t go far enough and had urged all funding to the IRS be rescinded, especially the provision to hire more agents.
Sen. Cruz complained that the package will still allow for the hiring of 87,000 more agents.
‘There’s not ‘one thing’ for Dems,’ Sen. Ted Cruz tweeted, claiming Speaker McCarthy was ‘right’ to say so. ‘There are $4 trillion things—a blank check—for Democrats.’
‘Plus 87,000 things: new IRS agents to harass Americans,’ he added. ‘All in exchange for eliminating virtually ALL of the House’s spending cuts.’
Instead of playing hard ball like the Left does, and wielding the levers of power to squeeze concessions out of Democrats, McCarthy and other Republican squishes caved on almost everything.
The cornerstone of the deal includes a two-year suspension of the debt limit until January 2025 after the next presidential election.
Republicans are taking issue with the $4 trillion ceiling increase, saying there could be virtually unlimited spending for the last two years of Biden’s first term.
The GOP had backed a deal in which the debt ceiling was only raised by $1.5 trillion – which was not agreed to.
Not agreed to … by the Democrats. We went from a $1.5 TRILLION deal to a $4 TRILLION “””deal.””” Which means that McCarthy caved to Democrats. Why? How? What do Democrats hold over the GOP?
The Leviathan grows and consumes more of our resources every time there’s a budget “””deal””” and pushes us ever closer to a global catastrophe. Our current debt is more than $31 TRILLION. The Democrats are hell bent on bankrupting us and the GOP goes right along with them.
The agreement also limits spending by keeping all non-defense appropriations roughly flat in Fiscal Year 2024 and increasing it by only one percent the following year – a point that conservatives are taking issue with since they urged a freeze on all federal spending for 10 years.
Congress is also required under the new bill to approve 12 annual spending bills or face a snapback to spending limits from the previous year.
The White House predicts the plan would reduce government spending by $1 trillion, but Republicans are calling them ‘fake’ spending cuts.
‘Fake conservatives agree to fake spending cuts,’ Sen. Paul tweeted. ‘Deal will increase mandatory spending ~5%, increase military spending ~3%, and maintain current non-military discretionary spending at post-COVID levels.’
‘No real cuts to see here.’
Rep. Norman of South Carolina called the deal ‘insanity’ said he won’t ‘vote to bankrupt our country.’
Here’s how Miranda Devine put it.
Kevin McCarthy trumpeted a debt-ceiling deal Sunday, but increasing debt another $4 trillion with minimal concessions is nothing to boast about.
To be fair, the House speaker has a razor slim majority and Republicans don’t control the Senate, where Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and his sidekick Lindsey Graham have announced that the only thing they care about is Ukraine.
But McCarthy’s one dealbreaker should have been his promise to defund President Biden’s massive $80 billion to turbocharge an already weaponized IRS.
This was the totemic centerpiece of his pitch to become speaker.
It was the most memorable promise of the Republicans’ midterm campaign to win back the House.
It struck a chord with voters, wary of funding a new “army” of armed IRS agents to harass middle-class families and small business owners and abuse their powers to target political dissidents, Soviet-style.
“Our very first bill will repeal the funding for 87,000 new IRS agents,” McCarthy vowed.
“You see, we believe government should be to help you, not go after you.”
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In the debt-ceiling deal outlined Sunday and due to be inked later this week, McCarthy has allowed the lion’s share of that extra IRS funding to remain unmolested: preserving $78.1 billion of the $80 billion.
As rebel GOP Rep Dan Bishop put it: “So there will be 85,260 more IRS agents rather than 87,000 to eat you alive. Big win.”
Overpromising and underdelivering is what turns voters off the GOP.
We effectively have only one ruling party in government: Democrats and their side-kick, Democrat Light, aka Republicans. True, there are some actual conservatives in the party, but not enough to pull the majority to the right. Here’s what they said.
When will conservatives wake up and realize we have no effective representation in Congress?
Thoroughly disgusted !!