A.G. Gancarski
The Chair of the Florida Democrats is taking issue with yet another Ron DeSantis position.
Nikki Fried is going after the Florida Governor for taking a hard line on debt ceiling negotiations still ongoing in Washington, given the Governor’s support in 2018 for a debt limit hike under former President Donald Trump.
“It’s unacceptable but not surprising that Ron DeSantis is supporting the MAGA Republicans who are holding our economy hostage to look out for billionaires and corporate interests, at the expense of Florida’s working families,” Fried said Wednesday.
The Chair’s comments come after DeSantis decried a debt limit hike Tuesday in Miami.
“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.
The Governor suggested cuts, but was unspecific, ignoring a reporter’s question about whether Social Security and Medicare cuts should be on the table. 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 Trump, which he calls “Democrat attacks.”
10 comments
Theresa
May 10, 2023 at 2:40 pm
Niki freed needs to go !
Elliott Offen
May 10, 2023 at 2:59 pm
You need to go…to school. Your spelling is bad. This is just reason why you people can’t be taken seriously.
Fried is a Fraud
May 10, 2023 at 2:57 pm
The most fraudulent and insignificant political wanna be in the state of Florida. Reminiscing off of Niki’s own financial reporting it appears she keeps books like most of the other Dems. She couldn’t even beat Charlie “flip flopper” Crist in the primary.
Nikki Fried
May 10, 2023 at 3:03 pm
Charlie was better known. That’s why he beat me. You just need some attention is all. How about I come over there and give you a bare, unwiped azz face sit babydoll? Yeah unwashed anchovy scrub to the face. Teach you a good lesson about shilling for pigs.
Billy the Bamboozler
May 10, 2023 at 2:57 pm
If Republicans cared about the debt then they would be pushing for less spending AND higher taxes. It’s all about sabotaging and obstructing government to benefit the rich for as long as possible. Debt will not come down from spending cuts alone. All the culture wars and the silly laws that the GOP comes up with is just to divert attention away from the GOPs sole purpose. Keep money flowing upwards and never down. Money doesn’t trickle down…it must be directed that way. A hog is a hog. They don’t share willingly.
Ione Townsend
May 10, 2023 at 3:42 pm
Learn the facts: Biden has reduced the deficit by 1.7 trillion dollars. While Trump increased the deficit by $7.8 trillion by giving tax cuts to his rich friends. The republicans raised the debt ceiling 3 times under Trump without asking for budget cuts once. Zero. Nadda. Not once. Hypocrisy rains supreme in the MAGA party.
Biden’s Broke
May 10, 2023 at 4:04 pm
I’ll have what she is having🤣
Rob Desantos
May 10, 2023 at 4:07 pm
It’s called the truth, it might taste bitter since you clearly haven’t had any in a long time.
Impeach Biden
May 10, 2023 at 6:02 pm
And tomorrow morning you are fo8ng to tell me the border is secure. You are also going to tell us that there is no inflation, big city crime and Russia did not invade Ukraine. What is your news source sunshine? Fakebook?
SteveHC
May 10, 2023 at 4:01 pm
That DeSantis is National Hypocrite #1 is not news, he’s been it since day 1.
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