A.G. Gancarski
Gov. Ron DeSantis is offering a solution to the current federal debt ceiling crisis.
“What they should be doing is reducing spending,” DeSantis said in Miami.
However, the Governor ignored the question from a reporter about whether Social Security and Medicare should be “on the table,” instead offering a 50,000-foot view of federal spending beyond its means.
“I think the idea that you would just raise (the debt ceiling) without anything is ridiculous. And we were $21 trillion in debt like five years ago, and now we’re $31 trillion in debt. And I think Joe Biden’s position is you just keep spending like no end and eventually it’s going to solve itself.”
DeSantis added “what they’re spending now is significantly more than what (Barack) Obama’s budget his last year of President projected for this year, and even with what they’re doing to reduce. So I just find it ridiculous that you would have Biden taking the position that there should be no reforms whatsoever to what the government is spending.”
“I think what they’re doing to me is common sense,” DeSantis said, apparently a reference to the hard-line position taken by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in ongoing negotiations.
“I don’t know why you would want to continue going the direction they were going. Eventually, this is all going to cause major, major problems,” DeSantis continued, adding that despite previous warnings, “you haven’t seen, necessarily, the crisis that some people predicted.”
“But I don’t see how you could go on this trajectory and not see something bad,” the Governor warned.
DeSantis has worked in recent months to attempt to walk back his previous position that Social Security and Medicare should be cut, in the wake of fierce and recurring blasts from former President Donald Trump, which he calls “Democrat attacks.”
“It’s interesting: Donald Trump himself wrote a book where he was talking about the need to increase the age of eligibility for Social Security to 70 and said people shouldn’t be worried about retiring,” DeSantis said Friday on Newsmax.
7 comments
Michael K
May 9, 2023 at 11:47 am
Vague solutions? His “solutions” are always vague, and in search of a problem – and ultimately require major mopping up from his lackeys in the legislature, because they are not well thought out.
He was also “vague” about his poisitonon abortion during the campaign, and now women are forced to give birth.
Congressman DeSantis was all in favor of “reductions” — cuts — to Social Security and Medicare – but had no objection to his fancy pension and medical insurance, which he is denying to hundreds of thousands of Floridians. He has no objections to generous tax cuts for the top 1%.
Missy
May 13, 2023 at 2:15 am
“Forced to give birth”??? What in the hell does THAT mean?
Billy the Bamboozler
May 9, 2023 at 4:36 pm
The anti tax movement is responsible for the debt. The aim was always to sabotage government on behalf of the rich. Republicans don’t care about the debt or they would be calling for higher taxes AND less spending. If you only spend less… wouldn’t one expect the debt to at most stay the same? Republicans are the most dishonest people you will ever meet.
Tjb
May 10, 2023 at 9:44 am
DeSantis can only talk about woke issues that have virtually no affect on our lives. When it comes to meaningful issues that will improve our lives, he is silent.
Michael Littlestone
May 19, 2023 at 4:21 pm
Woke issues like protecting our children from being groomed and sexualized?
Rob Desantos
May 10, 2023 at 2:02 pm
Surprise surprise, Desanctus doesn’t have any substantive ideas or solutions, just more of the same empty-headed GQP rhetoric that created most of that deficit.
Michael Littlestone
May 19, 2023 at 4:24 pm
Congress is responsible for the deficit. Bridges to nowhere, studies for the sexual mating habits of different animals, giving money to other countries to protect their borders while denying our own self defense… Stop all international aid to other countries until we have resolved our own fiscal problems…
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