When acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney tore into Republicans for hypocritically voting to increase spending for the past three years after railing against high deficits during the Obama years, he was simply echoing a sentiment deeply held for years by the grassroots. Citing the “extremely disturbing” $1 trillion deficit, Mulvaney hit the nail on the head.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In response to Rep. Chip Roy’s (R-Texas) letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Cal.) urging her to adhere to the 2011 Budget Control Act’s (BCA) spending caps for FY 2020 and 2021, Jason Pye, FreedomWorks Vice President of Legislative Affairs, commented:
The bill would blatantly disregard the Budget Control Act (BCA) of 2011 that requires Congress to adhere to budget caps – This bill goes above and beyond, busting the caps by nearly $300 billion over two years, more than twice that of the past two, two-year deals combined
Recently, I attended a speech that attempted to lay out a case that Ronald Reagan would not have been a Tea Party President. The speaker, a conservative not terribly familiar with the Tea Party movement, made an interesting case.