Schumer: Will GOP use debt ceiling to chop vitamin?

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

In keeping with a White Home press pool report, Schumer stated, “They’ve made commitments to place payments on the ground by common order. Effectively, let’s see what their plan is. Let’s see what their plan is on the debt ceiling. Do they need to minimize Social Safety, do they need to minimize Medicare, do they need to minimize veterans advantages, do they need to minimize police? Do they need to minimize meals for needy youngsters?”

Jeffries stated, 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 concerning the future, by means of the suitable mechanism – the funds course of, the appropriation course of.”

In the meantime, Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., a member of the Home Agriculture Committee, informed 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. However on the identical time, President Biden has stated he refuses to barter. That isn’t proper, both. You already know, we’ve got a bicameral home — or, with the Home in our management, the Senate below Democratic management, the current controls, clearly, the presidency as a Democrat, however to refuse to barter is just not the fitting reply. However on our social gathering, we are able to’t demand a balanced funds 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’d like a fee to have a look at obligatory spending. And people are issues that I feel we ought to be working in the direction of.”