WASHINGTON (WHTC-AM/FM, June 3, 2023) – The federal government won’t go into default on Monday as some had feared.
President Biden signed legislation behind closed doors at the White House on Saturday to raise the debt ceiling just two days before the US Treasury Department warned it would run out of money to pay the nation’s bills. The 99-page agreement made between House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and the President over Memorial Day weekend passed both the US House and US Senate in about a 36-hour span this past Wednesday and Thursday.
Along with raising the debt ceiling, the bill caps spending and adds work requirements for some Americans receiving govenment asistance. Although the deal was bipartisan in nature, it garnered criticism from both ends of the political spectrum, with progressives unhappy over benefit cuts for the needy, and conservatives displeased that budget cuts weren’t deep enough.
Some of those conservatives took to calling GOP Representative Bill Huizenga a RINO – Republican in Name Only – for supporting the agreement, and the seven-term lawmaker from Zeeland understood “the frustration that many of us share.”
Only third-term Democrat Representative Rashida Talib of Detroit voted against the measure among all members of Michigan’s Congressional Delegation.
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