House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R‑CA) panned President Joe Biden’s roughly $6.9 trillion budget proposal as “not serious” and warned him not to “play games with the debt ceiling.”
McCarthy contended that Biden’s budget proposal would be dead on arrival in the House and speculated that even Democrats “won’t even vote for this.” The speaker also reiterated his long-standing calls for Biden to negotiate a budgeting agreement with him to avert a debt ceiling crisis.
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“This budget talks more about equality and climate change than it does dealing with China dealing with fentanyl, dealing with putting our workforce back in the workplace. That is a real challenge,” McCarthy said on Fox News’s Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo.
“To have a nonserious budget and for a president not to show the leadership to sit down and solve this problem early only weakens America,” McCarthy added.
Biden’s roughly $6.9 trillion budget released last week was an opening act in the looming budget showdown wit …