The cuts that they're proposing are only to discretionary spending which does not include Social Security and Medicare although things do get a little tricky Nathaniel. If you don't cut spending at all for the military or veterans Then it ends up being a 51% cut to all other discretionary spending So is that also a position that will ultimately be difficult for McCarthy to maintain like where does it look like his vulnerabilities are on this question?
The FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast gets ready for a big week in politics. South Carolina Senator Tim Scott officially kicked off his presidential campaign in North Charleston Monday morning. We also expect the long-teased Ron DeSantis presidential campaign to become a reality this week. And, according to the Treasury Department we are just a week or so away from a possible default on the nation’s debt. National politics reporter at the AP Meg Kinnard and Data Columnist at the Washington Post join the crew to weigh in.
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