Rep. Gwen Moore said Republicans are throwing a temper tantrum like toddlers for making budget cut demands amid debt ceiling crisis.
Kevin McCarthy warns against Biden's government spending priorities: 'Don't play games with the debt ceiling'
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., on the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, the impending debt ceiling showdown, the 'Lower Energy Cost Act', and the decision to release Jan. 6 footage to Fox News' Tucker Carlson. A House Democrat on Thursday compared House Republicans to a toddler throwing a temper tantrum for insisting on federal spending cuts before agreeing to raise the government's borrowing limit.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I have a great-granddaughter that falls out and rolls all over the floor and screams when she can't have her way," said"Get up off the ground and pass this debt ceiling," Moore chided Republicans. Democrats have been pushing Republicans for weeks now for saying they will insist on spending cuts, and have no interest in raising the debt ceiling without taking steps to put the government on a more fiscally sustainable path.On Thursday, top Democrats in Congress slammed"extreme MAGA Republicans" in the House for not yet producing a proposal to deal with the looming debt ceiling while simultaneously demanding spending cuts in the context of the ongoing debt ceiling talks.
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