With Republicans poised to take the majority in two weeks, conservatives are eager to play hardball on the debt limit and government funding.
Chip Roy said it would be a “failure” for the party to not force a fight on discretionary spending that makes up about a third of the federal budget. | J. Scott Applewhite/AP PhotoAs the GOP prepares to take back the House, its right flank is raring to gut spending, upend the federal safety net and make Trump-era tax cuts permanent — ambitions that threaten to give leadership a two-year headache.
“Spare me if you’re a Republican who puts on your frigging campaign website, ‘Trust me, I will vote for a balanced budget amendment, and I believe we should balance the budget like every family in America.’ No shit,” Rep.“You have two simple leverage points: when government funding comes up and when the debt ceiling is debated,” Roy reminded his fellow Republicans.
Democrats are already clamoring to remind voters of the GOP’s interest in playing fiscal hardball to cut taxes for high-income earners and rattle entitlements, teeing up a debt limit standoff that’s one of the most significant fights awaiting Congress in 2023. Republicans like Rep.
Democrats say they aren’t fazed. Biden said Friday that it would be “irresponsible” to do away with the debt ceiling to stave off future fights. On the other hand, a GOP House majority next year could result in a throwback to 2011, when Republicans used the debt ceiling to secure federal spending caps from then-President Barack Obama. But after all that pain at the time, Congress routinely lifted those caps until they expired a decade later.
But the party’s biggest fiscal hawks have seemingly already lost government funding as a leverage point, at least in the near-term. Republican appropriators are happy to strike a deal with Democrats before government funding runs out on Dec. 16, which they argue would wipe the slate clean for the 118th Congress in January and help the Pentagon deal with the effects of inflation.
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