Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) on Tuesday came out against the deal that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) struck with President Joe Biden to raise the debt ceiling.
Writing on Twitter, Mace argued that the deal showed “Republicans got outsmarted by a President who can’t find his pants,” despite the fact that McCarthy crowed over the weekend that the deal has nothing positive in it for Democrats.
Mace in particular argued that the deal worked out between Biden and McCarthy “normalized” the high spending adopted by the government starting under former President Donald Trump to handle the novel coronavirus crisis that has killed more than a million American citizens.
“Govt grew massively over the past 3 years,” she wrote. “This growth was supposed to be emergency funding only during COVID. During this time, govt grew 40% or by $2 trillion from 2019 to 2023. We went from spending just over $4T to spending just over $6T.”
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Both right-wing Republicans and progressive Democrats have criticized the debt ceiling compromise, and at the moment it’s not clear whether McCarthy has the votes to pass it in the House of Representatives.
While conservatives have criticized the deal for not doing enough to cut spending, progressives have slammed the bill for its added work requirements for people who receive food stamps under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
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