“We’re going to balance the budget by ‘ending woke?’ Give me a break': How a former Trump aide is luring the GOP to a debt ceiling disaster.
Vought would know better than anyone that his policies are all bluster.
Vought is “selling conservatives a fantasy, which is achieving a balanced budget without cutting anything popular,” a nameless GOP official was willing to tell the Post. “We’re going to balance the budget by ‘ending woke?’ Give me a break.” But it’s a fantasy that has captivated lawmakers, particularly those among the House Freedom Caucus who have been pressing the hardest for spending cuts in exchange for a debt ceiling hike. They’re being further bolstered by claims from right-wing lawyers and economists that breaching the debt ceiling— just being forced to pick and choose which of its other programs won’t get funding in coming months, which may mean that “payments many Americans reasonably anticipate may not arrive.
Vought appears to think such a plan can be forced through by a divided majority in a single house of Congress with the debt ceiling as leverage. But it is doomed to fail for any number of reasons. In the immediate term, Democrats will stand in the way of its passing. In the medium term, there’s the looming economic catastrophe asamid uncertainty about the dollar.
All of which leave Republicans holding the bag and Vought as the obvious scapegoat for the likely catastrophic electoral punishment the GOP will take for dancing to his tune.
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