EXCLUSIVE: Senate Republicans
push for national commission
to balance budget
Washington Examiner,
by
Nihal Krishan
Original Article
Posted By: Ida Lou Pino,
4/15/2021 11:29:57 AM
Senate Republicans will introduce legislation Thursday to create a new bipartisan national commission to reduce the deficit and balance the federal budget within 10 years.
Republicans are concerned about runaway government spending and how it will be funded after Congress spent nearly $6 trillion in pandemic relief last year while the Biden administration is gearing up to spend trillions more. “We are on an unsustainable trajectory. We’ve become numb to the word ‘trillion,’” said Sen Cynthia Lummis, a Wyoming Republican and the lead sponsor of the Sustainable Budget Act.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Quigley 4/15/2021 11:36:51 AM (No. 755664)
Oh boy. Something is really getting done now. The headlines give the impression of chaos. Our media is so despicable in their constant surge for sensationalism. One can only hope that the situation on the ground is not as bad as what they communicate. But the fact that the media is certainly despicable is bad news for the the rest of us who don’t get rich from the corruption that thrives in and under the cover of chaos.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
RayLRiv 4/15/2021 11:47:13 AM (No. 755679)
Article V Convention of States is the only way to do it now
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 4/15/2021 11:47:57 AM (No. 755683)
Pubbies, is this a joke? We haven't been reamed over by the Great Reset yet.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
chance_232 4/15/2021 11:58:45 AM (No. 755694)
It will never come up for a floor vote. When and if the GOP ever gets control of the house, they will quietly shelve it.
Remember the GOP promises.....
Cut the deficit
Reduce Federal spending
Balance the budget
End Obama Care.
The last Speaker with nads, Pelosi exempted, was Gingrich.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 4/15/2021 12:10:58 PM (No. 755706)
They are such teasers. Bipartisan? They will increase spending and grow the debt.
When will the United States reach 30 trillion in debt? When will it reach 40 trillion? How about 50 trillion?
At what point does our once great country collapse?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Nimby 4/15/2021 12:14:15 PM (No. 755712)
What do you need another commission for? Waste of time.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
usawatcher 4/15/2021 12:19:56 PM (No. 755722)
Well if you really don’t want to do something you set a committee or a commission. That’s how it’s done in politics. They hope people will forget about it and they have cover by saying “We are studying it”
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Marzon 4/15/2021 1:01:02 PM (No. 755765)
This foredoomed and useless effort will be trumpeted loudly in all the 2022 campaigns as an example of "fighting hard for conservative principles"
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Yawn... How about honest elections...
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
stablemoney 4/15/2021 1:20:54 PM (No. 755796)
Really. Republicans standing up for a commission. And let's give credit to the Republicans. They have made the public aware that there is a huge deficit, a lot of red ink. A commission and informing us is the Republican Party's idea of fighting back. And next, Grassley is going to pen a letter. Meanwhile, the Democrats have completed a coup against POTUS45, impeached him twice of fake evidence and false witnesses, and stolen many Congressional seats with illegal voting. The Democrats have standing in any court in the land to file their lawsuits. The Republicans have no standing anywhere. The country is now communist. The Democrats not satisfied, never satiated, use language like global and universal. Even God allows self will, but not the Democrats.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 4/15/2021 1:27:09 PM (No. 755805)
r(E)publicans plan to write a stern letter to the White House then Biden places it in the circular file on the side of his ill gotten desk he obtained by fraud.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Ketchuplover 4/15/2021 2:26:09 PM (No. 755858)
Let's see if they remember how to pass a budget first. And then let's see them outlaw continuing resolutions. Only then might I raise an eyebrow.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Strike3 4/15/2021 2:41:00 PM (No. 755875)
Don't tease us with things that will never happen. The government is addicted to our money like Hunter is addicted to prostitutes.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 4/15/2021 4:39:46 PM (No. 756010)
The only way this happens is for a really, really carefully crafted Constitutional Amendment to be passed. That will NEVER get past the Congress, so the only way this happens is via a Convention of States.
And if it isn't written carefully enough, LOTS of spending will suddenly be discovered to 'not be part of the budget', and not included.
If it were to pass....it would be pretty jarring. Last I heard something like only 49% of the annual budget is covered by tax income, the rest by more borrowing. Cutting the fed budget by 50% would be wonderful.....except that it would ALL come out of the military and roads, NOTHING would be reduced in welfare and handouts, count on it.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
MDConservative 4/15/2021 5:59:30 PM (No. 756084)
Bwwwaaaaahahahahahaha! Oh, that's rich. How about opening the vault doors at Fort Knox so Americans can see the nation's gold reserves? Or, just that giant vault where our tax dollars are stacked to the ceiling used to pay for this, that and every stimulus? Republicans are themselves a fiscal joke.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 4/16/2021 3:19:39 AM (No. 756436)
What nonsense. These idiots vote to increase taxes, spending and borrowing every time. Does anyone in their right mind believe that a law will stop them?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
mifla 4/17/2021 8:11:26 AM (No. 757526)
OP, took the words right out of my mouth.
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Don't get too excited, folks. This headline has been run every year since 1957.