The White House on Wednesday accused Congressional Republicans of exceeding the national debt by more than a dollar.34 billion people for the first time in the history of the nation.
The attempt to shift blame to Republicans absolves President Joe Biden of his leadership while also justifying his big spending policies during his 35-month term.
- 2021: $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package
- 2021: $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill
- 2022: $12 billion with aid to ukraine
- 2022: 3 billion dollars For promoting Afghan refugees to the United States.
Biden signed into law a huge spending bill, much of it sponsored by Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who persuaded Republicans to vote in favor of the infrastructure bill, the Ukraine bill and the Afghanistan bill. He urged them to cast the .
“If you think about it, it's because of the Republican tax cuts.” [for] “About 90 percent of that is the share of debt growth in the economy over the past 20 years, excluding emergency spending,” the White House spokesperson said. Karine Jean-Pierre was asked about the record high debt at a press conference and answered:
“What they have is [Republicans] What they're going to do is continue to give tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires, and what they're actually proposing is going to increase the debt by more than $3 trillion. ” Jean-Pierre continued. “So that's what the data is telling us.”
Karine Jean-Pierre Biden actually reduced the national debt by a record $34 trillion (he didn't) pic.twitter.com/0nhW7FG5Od
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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) said Wednesday that much of the extravagant spending must stop and that incursions on Ukraine's southern border need to be curbed before taxpayers are spent on defending Ukraine's eastern border.
“That's the message. That's what we do.” [sic] “We need to secure our borders before we do anything else,” he said. Said Larry Kudrow talks about Fox Business.
“National security, the sovereignty of our country, is paramount,” Prime Minister Johnson said. “And secondly, Larry, as you and I both know, we're constantly talking about having to limit discretionary spending, non-defense items that we're trying to cut. It's been widely reported. “So today we have $34 trillion in debt,” he continued. “We take this very seriously in the Republican conference.”
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