Biden budget vs. House GOP: Values on display in debt fight

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : The chamber's Freedom Caucus is eyeing reductions to supplemental disability insurance, food stamps and fresh work requirements on some people receiving government aid.
51% : In the view of his chief congressional critics led by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, the budget is also the arena where they intend to challenge the president with values of their own - slashing the social safety net, trimming support for Ukraine and ending the so-called "woke" policies rejected by Republicans.
46% : While Republicans newly empowered in the House have bold ideas about rolling back government spending to fiscal 2022 levels and putting the federal budget on a path to balance within the next decade, they have no easy ideas for how to meet those goals.
46% : Because McCarthy has yet to release his budget, Biden has toured the country and talked to audiences about past Republican plans to cut Social Security and Medicare.
46% : But by shielding those programs from cuts and opposing any tax increases, GOP lawmakers would need crippling slashes to the rest of government spending that could offend voters going into the 2024 elections.
45% : By refusing to raise taxes, the Republicans in the House are relying almost exclusively on reductions to bring budgets into balance.
26% : McCarthy insists reductions to the Medicare and Social Security entitlement programs that millions of America´s seniors and others depend on are off the table - and Republicans howled in protest during Biden´s State of the Union address to Congress last month when the president claimed otherwise.

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