2024 Republican hopefuls bash the debt ceiling deal trends now
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Former Vice President Mike Pence issued a statement ripping the new bipartisan budget deal as 'smoke and mirrors' while House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and his lieutenants are rushing to line up the votes to try to pass it.
Pence, who served in the House Republican leadership before serving as Indiana governor and joining Donald Trump in the White House, went after the deal in a statement from his Advancing American Freedom nonprofit.
He said the 'small reforms' in the deal would weaken the nation's military.
His criticism comes a day after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis savaged the plan by saying the nation would still be 'careening toward bankruptcy.' Pence is expected to formally jump into the race for the White House soon, joining other Republicans jostling to try to strip away some of Trump's mass of support in the GOP base.
'The United States is staring down a debt crisis over the next 25 years that's driven by entitlements, and nobody in Washington, D.C., wants to talk about it,' Pence said.
Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley joined the pile-on among presidential contenders. 'The best way to fix Washington’s spending addiction is to elect people who have not been part of the problem,' she tweeted. 'Adding at least $4 trillion to America’s $31 trillion national debt over two years without substantially cutting spending is no way to run our country’s fiscal affairs. Business as usual won’t get the job done.'
Former Vice President Mike Pence said a budget deal between President Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy 'uses Washington smoke and mirror games to make small reforms'
The poor reviews come after McCarthy said he spoke with Trump, who urged him to get
