House Freedom Caucus Issues Demands in Debt Limit Fight – By Yuval Rosenberg (The Fiscal Times) / Mar 10, 2023
Members of the far-right House Freedom Caucus on Friday demanded steep spending cuts and a rollback of major portions of President Joe Biden’s agenda and insisted that their conditions be met before they will consider voting to raise the debt limit.
At a press conference at the U.S. Capitol, Freedom Caucus leaders said that they want to shrink Washington, D.C., and grow America. They railed against the federal government and what they called a “wasteful, woke and weaponized federal bureaucracy” and dismissed the $6.9 trillion budget plan released Thursday by President Joe Biden. Instead, the group, led by Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA), called for setting federal spending at 2022 levels for a decade and reversing legislation enacted by Democrats.
“We can save over $3 trillion over the next decade by putting that spending for the federal bureaucracy back to pre-Covid levels,” said Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX). “Now I ask you, who among us thinks that the size of government in 2019 was really small and efficient and effective?”
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