Proposed Replacement for Axed Spending Bill Could Actually Be Even Worse

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : And that brings us back to Trump.
46% : Last month, Trump entrusted his friend and ally Elon Musk, owner of social media platform X, and Vivek Ramaswamy, former Republican presidential candidate, with the crucial task of leading the "Department of Government Efficiency" (DOGE), a new temporary agency designed to bring fiscal sanity to the federal government, in particular its sprawling bureaucracy.Wednesday on X, Musk and Ramaswamy led the pressure campaign that forced legislators to reject the pork-filled spending bill.
40% : In theory, at least, those limits help curb reckless government spending.
40% : In short, considering the president-elect's commitment to DOGE, his lengthy experience with Democrat shenanigans and, most important of all, the fact that the debt ceiling does not appear in the Constitution and has apparently done nothing to restrain federal spending in recent years, an honest and reasonable observer might give Trump the benefit of any debt-related doubts.
35% : "If Republicans try to pass a clean Continuing Resolution without all of the Democrat 'bells and whistles' that will be so destructive to our Country, all it will do, after January 20th, is bring the mess of the Debt Limit into the Trump Administration, rather than allowing it to take place in the Biden Administration," Trump wrote Wednesday evening on his social media platform, TruthSocial.
34% : What did he mean by "Democrat quicksand"?Could it be that Trump expects his unscrupulous enemies in Congress to play a game of political brinkmanship next year?
32% : Now that a massive public pressure campaign has resulted in the defeat of a horrific, pork-filled federal spending bill, some conservatives have expressed concern over what comes next, particularly if Trump succeeds in his stated goal of securing a bill that raises or eliminates the debt ceiling before his inauguration next month.
30% : "Anybody that supports a bill that doesn't take care of the Democrat quicksand known as the debt ceiling should be primaried and disposed of as quickly as possible," Trump told Fox News Digital Thursday morning.
25% : Then, Thursday morning on X, Garrett Haake of NBC News reported that Trump hopes to scrap the debt ceiling altogether.
12% : Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance also opposed the bill.

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