Schumer: Will GOP use debt ceiling to cut nutrition?

After assembly with President Biden and Vice President Harris on Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., spoke to reporters exterior the West Wing of the White House.

According to a White House press pool report, Schumer mentioned, “They’ve made commitments to place payments on the ground by common order. Well, let’s see what their plan is. Let’s see what their plan is on the debt ceiling. Do they need to lower Social Security, do they need to lower Medicare, do they need to lower veterans advantages, do they need to lower police? Do they need to lower meals for needy children?”

Jeffries mentioned, talking of the debt restrict, that the payments must be paid that Congress has already incurred however added, “We’re able to have a commonsense, forward-looking dialogue in regards to the future, by means of the suitable mechanism – the price range course of, the appropriation course of.”

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Meanwhile, Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., a member of the House Agriculture Committee, instructed NBC’s “Meet on Press” on Tuesday that “we must always have a way of urgency to discover a center floor. Some of us in my social gathering need the moon, I name it, they usually’re not gonna get it. But on the similar time, President Biden has mentioned he refuses to barter. That isn’t proper, both. You know, we’ve a bicameral home — or, with the House in our management, the Senate underneath Democratic management, the current controls, clearly, the presidency as a Democrat, however to refuse to barter isn’t the correct reply. But on our social gathering, we are able to’t demand a balanced price range in so a few years, both. That’s going to take teamwork, working with the Democrats on this to get proper. So I feel there’s some center floor right here — I’ve proposed making an attempt to maintain spending inside inflation. We want a fee to take a look at necessary spending. And these are issues that I feel we ought to be working in the direction of.”