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I keep thinking about 2011. New House GOP majority.
Key member: Mick Mulvaney. What did he demand?
Cut, Cap and Balance: No debt limit hike/avoiding default without AMENDING THE CONSTITUTION with a balance budget amendment. & massive spending cuts.
He called it a "compromise."
Key member: Mick Mulvaney. What did he demand?
Cut, Cap and Balance: No debt limit hike/avoiding default without AMENDING THE CONSTITUTION with a balance budget amendment. & massive spending cuts.
He called it a "compromise."
Obama ended up cutting a deal with McConnell & co. cutting trillions in spending from the baseline over a decade to avoid a default. (Mulvaney voted no).
It's hard to imagine what the equivalent ask from Pelosi would be today?
"I'll shut down the government and default on the debt unless there is a Constitutional Amendment enacting single payer/cap and trade/overturning Citizens United/amnesty for 11 million"?
"I'll shut down the government and default on the debt unless there is a Constitutional Amendment enacting single payer/cap and trade/overturning Citizens United/amnesty for 11 million"?
Fun fact: If the Balanced Budget Amendment were law of the land, Mulvaney/Trump budgets would be violating the Constitution. And not by a little.
