'Two warnings late this week on federal government debt, one from a Democrat and one from a Republican, deserve a wider audience and a constructive response from everyone in federal elective office,' QuinHillyer writes.
FILE - Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., speaks to reporters outside the hearing room where he chairs the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, at the Capitol in Washington, July 19, 2022. Manchin announced Wednesday, July 27, that he had reached an expansive agreement with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer which had eluded them for months on health care costs, energy and climate issues, taxing higher earners and large corporations and reducing federal debt.
On Saturday, Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley pounded home an anti-debt message to a Florida meeting of the Club for Growth, a right-wing group that donates money for intra-party Republican primary fights.“President Trump added an estimated $7.5 trillion to projected debt levels from legislation and executive orders, including $4 trillion not related to COVID,” Manchin said on the Senate floor.
As for Haley, she introduced the topic this way: “We’re living through an unprecedented expansion of the welfare state. Ninety million people on Medicaid … Forty-two million people on food stamps. Since the moment COVID hit, we’ve spent trillions paying people to sit on the couch. This president, and his party, apparently looked at the failing economies of Europe and said, ‘yea, let’s do that.’ It’s un-American. And it doesn’t have to be this way.
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