(The Center Square) – The House Freedom Caucus hit back Wednesday after its budget proposal got the attention of the White House, with members pledging to cut federal spending.
“We intend to do what the American people elected us to do and that is to bring fiscal responsibility, fiscal stability to Washington,” U.S. Rep. Bob Good, R-Va., said during a news conference.
The caucus has said it would vote to raise the debt ceiling in exchange for concessions, including ending the $400 billion student loan debt cancellation program, rescinding unspent COVID-19 funding, rescinding $80 billion in Internal Revenue Service funding from the Inflation Reduction Act, repealing climate-related spending from the Inflation Reduction Act, setting fiscal year 2024 appropriations to the 2022 enacted level, and capping future discretionary spending growth at 1% a year for a decade.
“We’ve never cut spending on the House side in modern times,” Good said. “We’re going to do that.”
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a nonprofit budget watchdog group, estimated the proposal would save $2.9 to $3.7 trillion over a decade, including $275 to $775 billion over the next 2.5 years, depending on the details. The group said, “although details of the savings differ tremendously, these savings levels are in line with [President Joe Biden’s fiscal year] 2024 budget proposal.”
The group noted that the House Freedom Caucus proposal to rescind the IRS funding, “which is being used to narrow the gap between taxes owed and taxes collected, would actually worsen the deficit – to the tune of $120 billion over the next decade.” However, on the whole, the caucus proposal would save $2.9 to $3.7 trillion over 10 years.
On Monday, the White House called the House Freedom Caucus proposal a “five-alarm fire” that would “be a disaster for families in at least five key ways: endangering public safety, raising costs for families, shipping manufacturing jobs overseas and undermining American workers, weakening national security, and hurting seniors.”
Caucus members dismissed those claims on Wednesday.
U.S. Rep. Michael Cloud, R-Texas, said the caucus is proposing a return to pre-COVID spending levels.
“Only in Washington is that ‘the world is going to end’ if we go back to spending what we were just a couple of years ago before a massive pandemic hit our country,” he said.
“The White House called the House Freedom Caucus proposal a “five-alarm fire” that would “be a disaster for families in at least five key ways: endangering public safety, raising costs for families, shipping manufacturing jobs overseas and undermining American workers, weakening national security, and hurting seniors.”
Of course they did!
The lies, cons, deceptions, immorality, hypocrisy and treachery of the treasonous, woke, socialist Democrat Party and their Democrat RINOs know no bounds.
This treasonous, dishonest, destructive, woke Socialist Democrat Party’s objective is to deliberately lie, cheat and steal. To disregard the U.S. Constitution and our laws, in order to take total control of the American people by their restricting U.S. citizens their constitutional rights and freedoms. Stopping oil production, increase Spending, Taxes and the inflation cost of everything and bring American commerce and economy to its knees by any way possible, encourage unlimited illegal immigrant, promotion and support Socialism, enforced by their political DOJ and their FBI and IRS police Gestapo.
Then access power and retain it by any means available –
No matter the costs to the people, the government or the nation.
This treasonous, hateful, destructive, immoral, socialist Democrat Party, their RINOs and their corrupt, demented puppet president has become our country’s most destructive and deadliest ENEMY!
SINCE WHEN has the left, given one rats butt, about “PUBLIC SAFETY”??
While I applaud the sentiment, 1% growth is not cutting spending.
“capping future discretionary spending growth at 1% a year for a decade.
“We’ve never cut spending on the House side in modern times,” Good said. “We’re going to do that.” “