Steve HermanPresident Biden, in a national address from the Oval Office, says the bipartisan budget agreement is vital to keeping the full faith and credit of the country and is a "crisis averted."
"No one got everything they wanted but the American people got what they needed," President Biden tells the nation.
"I want to commend Speaker McCarthy," adds President Biden. "Both sides operated in good faith."
President Biden says he'll sign the #budgetdeal bill tomorrow (Saturday).
President Biden, in a live televised address, says "more Americans are working today than ever in the history of this country."
"We're going to do even more to reduce the deficti" and control spending, says President Biden in a national address from the Oval Office.
"Right now the average billionaire in America pays just eight percent in federal taxes," according to President Biden. "No billionaire should pay less in federal taxes than a teacher or firefighter."
"Lower the temperature," says President Biden of the domestic political bitterness.
"May God bless you all and may God protect our troops," says President Biden in conclusion, after thanking people for taking the time to listen to his address.
Beeks@w7voa Our troops? We going to war soon? Our troops are mostly drinking and tiktoking from their barracks right now.
Anne Ominous@w7voa as always steve, i truly appreciate that we have a reporter covering the BS that is our country's politics on mastodon. thank you.
MisterStars@w7voa troops? Are we going to war again?
A Tattered Scrapbook@w7voa Uh-oh. Who’s getting invaded?
@w7voa how TF can someone still think this way after the GOP literally staged a GD insurrection. how much more has to happen before these people realize that asking a party of fascists to play nice isnt going to cut it!
Makyris@w7voa Exactly!
Airng4blu@w7voa
Can not do anything about tax cuts for #billionaires if we have #GOP majority in Congress or senate. The pro corporations gop will pass to increase taxes on the wealthy. #vote them out
Can not do anything about tax cuts for #billionaires if we have #GOP majority in Congress or senate. The pro corporations gop will pass to increase taxes on the wealthy. #vote them out
Mark Smith@w7voa is deficti derived from covfefe?
@w7voa start with the defense department and police or STFU
mark@rustoleumlove @w7voa ya. I didn't get what I needed. The sacklers are still free, cops kill without recourse, and the money that isn't even wanted by the military stayed protected.
OneEyedAlien@w7voa But anything Biden might propose would be simply a bargaining chip so he could get more money for police & defense.
Brittle Anxious Nonlinear Inco@w7voa omg he may be so disassociated he actually believes that
Martha Howell@w7voa
Dark Brandon weighs in
Dark Brandon weighs in
Tafkak@w7voa McCarthy supported the insurrection and the plot to destroy America. And he will again if it is politically expedient. Other than that, “good faith.”
Erin ConroyAre you fucking kidding me.
This is 100% not true. McCarthy is an extortionist and used the debt ceiling like a gun to extort the government & everyone in the country. By definition not good faith.
Biden gratuitously doing PR for McCarthy after rolling over so badly to him is grotesque.
paulmather007@chargrille @w7voa I wonder, does Biden acting like McCarthy was reasonable actually HURT McCarthy with the Republican base? Like if he said he was an economic terrorist (which is the truth) would that actually make it look like McCarthy successfully owned the libs? Maybe I’m ascribing 4d chess to the guy, admittedly.
No. This entire debt ceiling debacle, including Biden failing to solve the problem with the Democratic majority when we had it, is a win for the GOP, and they know it. It's a redux of his screwup in 2012.
“The reason he has such good relationships with Republicans in the Senate is he never hesitates to put aside the highest priorities of his base in the interests of compromise,” the Republican operative said. (2019)
David Penington@chargrille @paulmather007 @w7voa
Official democrats have not been a majority in the senate - they needed an independent. Under Biden Democrats have not come close to the 60 votes to stop a filibuster. Actual democrats have been a minority.
Official democrats have not been a majority in the senate - they needed an independent. Under Biden Democrats have not come close to the 60 votes to stop a filibuster. Actual democrats have been a minority.
I'm sorry for being blunt, but, give me a break. If you have time to monitor US elections from Australia, you have time to know that Biden spent his entire first year throwing cold water on filibuster reform, that Democrats had a trifecta in 2021 & 2022, including a lame duck session where CPC urged leadership to remove GOP's debt ceiling gun. Now, we have a 51-vote Senate majority (+ VP) with power to remove the filibuster. Leadership lacks the will.
@chargrille
It sounds like you expect Joe Manchin & Kyrsten Sinema to both vote for both removing the filibuster and removing the debt ceiling, if Biden uses "leadership". I doubt it.
I don't know who you mean by CPC.
Criticising Biden for not achieving things that needed a solid majority in the small-state gerrymandered to achieve seems like the sort if thing the Republicans want you to say - to discourage people from voting Democrat.
It sounds like you expect Joe Manchin & Kyrsten Sinema to both vote for both removing the filibuster and removing the debt ceiling, if Biden uses "leadership". I doubt it.
I don't know who you mean by CPC.
Criticising Biden for not achieving things that needed a solid majority in the small-state gerrymandered to achieve seems like the sort if thing the Republicans want you to say - to discourage people from voting Democrat.
You think I understand a lot less about my country's politics than I do.
Also, "leadership" is how we in the US refer to party leadership. Not the abstract quality of leadership.
Also, you should know that we are Democrats, but we "vote Democratic" or, "for the Democratic ticket." Not "vote Democrat." That is GOP terminology, intended by the GOP to be a slur to irritate Democrats, that Gingrich et al. began maliciously spreading in the 1990s. Unfortunately, ignorance spreads faster than knowledge & now it is widely misused.