Bismarck is credited with the quote:
“Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best”.
That notion escapes many #GOP politicians animated only by the desire to deliver tax cuts to those who don’t need them and a refusal to compromise at all costs
#Politics #USPolitics #DebtLimit
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/30/us/debt-limit-bill-house-rules-committee.html
From what I've heard from the holdouts, their concerns tended to focus on spending, not taxes.
The holdouts will only ultimately be satisfied if spending can be reduced to expenditures associated with the military.
The holdouts say the opposite. Take this statement from Chip Roy, just to grab one of them at random to grab his stance.
He's calling for discretionary spending at 2022 levels, and the US certainly did spend on more than the military then.
