DeSantis Blames Trump For Passage Of Debt Ceiling Bill

Florida Politics reports:

Addressing a crowd in Manchester, New Hampshire Thursday evening, the Florida Governor fulminated about rampant federal spending, and repeated his contention that the accord wouldn’t stop the country from “careening toward bankruptcy.”

But it’s not just the GOP’s usual suspect, President Joe Biden, who earned DeSantis’ ire — it was also his chief 2024 opposition, former President Donald Trump. “We should have 55 Republican Senators instead of 49 Republican Senators,” DeSantis said, in remarks implicitly critical of Trump, who backed various candidates many believe were unelectable.

“A lot of those were winnable races. A lot of those were flubbed,” DeSantis added. “Maybe the deal would have been good if we had 55 Republican Senators. But we don’t. We have 49.”

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Seventeen Senate Republicans voted for the bill.