The falls in to the category of putting money where their mouths are. For those who will be bitching about governmental failure to stop the surge in migrants, the GOP's answer is to cut funding for border security and enforcement. Contained in the GOP attempt to hold hostage spending for certain federal programs in their strategy to force budget cuts to be accepted as condition fortheir approval to raise the debt ceiling would make it even harder to handle the migration. : Taking appropriations back to the level the GOP wants would cut 9% in discretionary spending compared to this year’s spending. Particularly dire in these spending cuts would be the ability to enforce federal laws from the TSA, food inspectors, border patrol, the justice system, and more.
This illustrates the madness of trying to get future budgets to reflect their priorities by holding approval of raising the debt ceiling hostage to their budget demands. If this is not what the GOP intended, then they should take their budget concerns through the budget process separately from the strategy of trying to force the government to fail to meet last year's financial obligations by voting against raising the debt ceiling.
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