GOP Chair Ronna McDaniel said Republicans stand united to defeat President Joe Biden in 2024, as Americans want to send him “packing.” “Biden is so out-of-touch that after creating crisis after crisis, he thinks he deserves another four years,” McDaniel said in a statement issued by the Republican National Committee shortly after President Joe Biden announced Tuesday he would seek reelection. “If voters let Biden ‘finish the job,’ inflation will continue to skyrocket, crime rates will rise, more fentanyl will cross our open borders, children will continue to be left behind, and American families will be worse off,” she said, adding, “Americans are counting down the days until they can send Biden packing.” Read Full Story

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House Republicans’ go-it-alone debt limit bill pairs a debt ceiling increase expected to last into next year with what Speaker Kevin McCarthy said would be about $4.5 trillion in savings generated in part by cutting Biden administration priorities.

The bill released on Wednesday — dubbed the Limit, Save, Grow Act — aims to raise the debt limit by $1.5 trillion or through March 31, 2024, whichever comes first. 

It proposes reverting discretionary spending caps to fiscal 2022 levels while limiting growth to 1% annually over the next decade. While Republicans have long said the discretionary spending cuts would not target defense spending, nothing in the bill explicitly protects defense spending, leaving that spending up to appropriators.

The move to release a debt limit increase bill comes as President Joe Biden has refused to negotiate with McCarthy on the matter, calling for a “clean” debt limit increase not paired with any other policy points. Read Full Story

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Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell returned to the Capitol Monday after a five-and-a-half-week absence as his party faces an array of tough political problems: the expiration of the debt limit, a messy fight over the 2024 presidential nomination and divisions over abortion policy. 

McConnell has been the GOP’s steady hand on the levers of power in Washington for more than a decade, and he now faces some of the biggest challenges of his career.  

“It’s good to be back,” McConnell declared Monday in his first Senate floor speech in nearly six weeks, making a quip about the concussion he suffered last month. “Suffice it to say, this wasn’t the first time that being hardheaded has served me very well.” 

The Senate leader’s biggest immediate challenge is to figure out how to help break the impasse between President Joe Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy over the debt limit, which is projected to expire this summer, perhaps as soon as June… Read Full Story

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