Freedom Caucus Vows To Block McCarthy’s Debt Deal

May 28, 2023 Politics, Republicans

Reuters reports:

After tough negotiations to reach a tentative deal with the White House on the U.S. borrowing limit, the next challenge for House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is pushing it through the House, where hardline Republicans are already threatening to sink it.

As Democratic and Republican negotiators iron out the final details of an agreement to suspend the federal government’s $31.4 trillion debt ceiling in coming days, McCarthy may be forced to do some behind-the-scenes wrangling.

“We’re going to try” to stop it from passing the House, Representative Chip Roy, a prominent member of the hardline House Freedom Caucus, said on Twitter. House and Senate Republicans were critical of the deal’s time frame and emerging terms.

The Insider reports:



Republican Congressmen Ralph Norman and Ken Buck both attacked the agreement. Norman, of South Carolina, called the deal “insanity” in a tweet and said a debt ceiling increase with “virtually no cuts” was not what had been agreed. He vowed not to vote to “bankrupt our country”.

Buck, of Colorado, said he’s “appalled” by the “surrender” to raise the debt ceiling. “The bottom line is that the US will have $35 trillion of debt in January, 2025. That is completely unacceptable,” he tweeted.

Rep. Bob Good also announced his intention to oppose the legislation. He tweeted: “I am hearing the ‘deal’ is for a $4 trillion increase in the debt limit. IF that is true, I don’t need to hear anything else. No one claiming to be a conservative could justify a YES vote.”

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