Article Title: House Republicans have reasonable and sensible solutions to debt ceiling crisis. Biden wont negotiate on added pork
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House Republicans have reasonable and sensible solutions to debt ceiling crisis:
Recapture Unobligated COVID Money – There is nearly $100 billion in uncommitted pandemic money that Congress could rescind to reduce the deficit.
Put Americans Back to Work – By reinstating work requirements in welfare programs (like TANF and SNAP) we could save tens of billions and spur economic growth.
Reduce Fraud in the Child Tax Credit (CTC) and SNAP (Food Stamp) Program – Requiring Social Security numbers for the CTC and income verification for SNAP would not only reduce fraud, but it would also save roughly $70 billion.
Limit Obamacare to its Original Purpose – Capping Obamacare subsidies at 400 percent of poverty and below while recovering overpayments could save nearly $65 billion.
Cancel Wasteful EPA Programs from the IRA – The Inflation Reduction Act included $27 billion for the EPA with no specific programmatic purpose, and $60 billion for “environmental justice” programs. That money should be rescinded.
End President Biden’s Student Loan Bailouts – President Biden’s student loan bailout is not only costly and misguided, but recent studies have also shown that it disproportionally benefits the top 10% of income earners. Ending these bailouts would save hundreds of billions of dollars: $25 billion from ending his loan repayment moratorium and $379 billion from prohibiting the debt cancellation all together.
Stop Wasteful and Extreme Climate Spending – Rescind $3 billion for new USPS electric vehicles, $1 billion for “clean” garbage trucks, $3.4 billion for “regional greenways” and “tree planting,” and $5.6 billion for low emissions buses.
Refocus Spending to Programs that Address the Crisis at Our Border, Not Exacerbate It –The recent $1.7 trillion omnibus that Democrats rushed through at the end of the year was ripe with wasteful and misguided spending, including hundreds of millions of dollars towards organizations that facilitate illegal immigration and $10 million for legal assistance for detained migrants.
Address Billions in improper payments – The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently reported that federal agencies made an estimated $281 billion in improper payments during FY21. House Republicans will put a stop to these improper payments.
Stop Woke-Waste – The recent omnibus included millions of dollars in funding for woke policies that American taxpayers shouldn’t be footing the bill for, including $1.2 million for “LGBTQIA+ Pride Centers,” $1 million for a space for “gender-expansive people of color,” $3.6 million for a Michelle Obama Trail in Georgia, and $750,000 for “Transgender and Gender nonconforming and Intersex (TGI) immigrant women in Los Angeles.”
Source: house.gov
