The Debt Ceiling Negotiations Are Going to Be Used to Increase the Deficit

A bunch of House Republicans who were all vying to be the chair of the Ways and Means Committee said what they're planning to do is to use the debt ceiling negotiations that will be happening in 2023 as a hostage. So it's like, yeah, of course, every Democrat running should run out there and say, look, if these guys take the house, even though Joe Biden's still going to be president, they're going to try to hold the debt ceiling hostage unless they get cuts to Medicare and Social Security. And another way to connect the dots here is two things: The vast majority of Republicans running say that they want to repeal the inflation reduction act. Doing that means that you