House Republicans are trying to defend their demand to “offset” aid to Israel with a cut to Internal Revenue Service funding, which would actually increase the deficit by reducing the amount the IRS could collect from wealthy tax cheats. That means Republicans have to find ways to dismiss the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office report on their plan. House Speaker Mike Johnson blew it off completely, but Rep. Ralph Norman had to work a little harder to spin it because CNN’s Kate Bolduan came prepared.
Well played. How would Norman respond? If you had “by halfway admitting that he picks and chooses which CBO reports he pays attention to and then changing the subject,” you are a winner.
The CBO isn’t right 100% of the time and it isn’t wrong 100% of the time, so Norman might as well just take the numbers he likes and discard the ones he doesn’t. Like the numbers showing that the current House Republican “offset” on Israel aid needs an offset of its own, because it increases the deficit.
Where in the Biden administration’s plan can they have an offset? Well, emergency aid like this has not traditionally required an offset, so this is Republicans breaking precedent and insisting that Democrats are the unreasonable ones for not just going along with it.
We’ve got a $1.7 trillion deficit, eh? Quick question: How much is the 2017 Republican tax law, which Norman voted for, adding to the deficit over a decade, according to the CBO? Oh, look at that: $1.8 trillion, not including debt servicing.
What about the woke agenda of the military? I mean … what about it? Is that like a line item in the military budget? Or are those words a Republican code for “the military isn’t as anti-woman and anti-LGBTQ+ as I think it should be, so I’m just going to sling this catchphrase around to pretend I have a point here”?
House Republicans do not care about the truth and they don’t really care how obvious that is, either. But if they fail to reach a spending agreement and shut down the government, voters are going to notice.
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Well played. How would Norman respond? If you had “by halfway admitting that he picks and chooses which CBO reports he pays attention to and then changing the subject,” you are a winner.
The CBO isn’t right 100% of the time and it isn’t wrong 100% of the time, so Norman might as well just take the numbers he likes and discard the ones he doesn’t. Like the numbers showing that the current House Republican “offset” on Israel aid needs an offset of its own, because it increases the deficit.
Where in the Biden administration’s plan can they have an offset? Well, emergency aid like this has not traditionally required an offset, so this is Republicans breaking precedent and insisting that Democrats are the unreasonable ones for not just going along with it.
We’ve got a $1.7 trillion deficit, eh? Quick question: How much is the 2017 Republican tax law, which Norman voted for, adding to the deficit over a decade, according to the CBO? Oh, look at that: $1.8 trillion, not including debt servicing.
What about the woke agenda of the military? I mean … what about it? Is that like a line item in the military budget? Or are those words a Republican code for “the military isn’t as anti-woman and anti-LGBTQ+ as I think it should be, so I’m just going to sling this catchphrase around to pretend I have a point here”?
House Republicans do not care about the truth and they don’t really care how obvious that is, either. But if they fail to reach a spending agreement and shut down the government, voters are going to notice.
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