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Let's talk about McConnel, McCarthy, and defense spending....

Belle of the Ranch

Belle of the Ranch

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🗓️ 5 March 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Let's talk about McConnel, McCarthy, and defense spending....

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0:00.0

Well, howdy there internet people, it's Bowe again.

0:04.0

So today we are going to talk about McConnell and McCarthy and the debt ceiling and defense spending because McConnell indicated something that might pose a problem

0:19.3

for Republicans over in the House. We've talked a lot about McConnell over the years and we have talked

0:28.7

about how he is politically savvy he is somebody who win another politician even if they're part of his

0:38.4

party you know kind of takes a swipe at him. He'll just nod his head and quietly work to destroy them.

0:47.6

So, interesting thing happened.

0:51.1

McConnell has decided he is against defense cuts.

0:56.0

Doesn't want any cuts to defense spending.

0:59.0

Actually kind of sounded like he wanted more defense spending.

1:07.0

Republicans in the House want to cut the budget,

1:11.0

at least somewhat, and they need big numbers to make it seem like they

1:17.2

did anything.

1:21.1

Biden goaded them into booing the idea of cutting Social Security, Medicare, stuff like that. The only other place that they could realistically get big

1:35.9

numbers easily is defense spending. McConnell has basically just said that he doesn't want that. He doesn't want defense cuts.

1:52.0

He's in the Senate. Let's be honest, he is the Senate, at least the

1:57.5

Republican side of the aisle. If he's not in favor of defense cuts, they're probably not going to happen.

2:07.0

Because anything the House does has to go through the Senate.

2:12.0

Maybe McCarthy shouldn't have taken a shot at McConnell, like right as soon as he had to go through all those votes.

2:22.0

Probably wasn't a good idea. as he had to go through all those votes.

2:23.2

Probably wasn't a good idea.

2:27.0

Now, that leaves House Republicans

2:31.0

in a very unique situation where if they actually want to get any real cuts

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