{"id":56977,"date":"2023-05-26T12:16:11","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T19:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=56977"},"modified":"2023-05-26T12:16:11","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T19:16:11","slug":"squeaker-mccarthys-debt-default-deceit-is-wrecked-by-wh-press-secretary-karine-jean-pierre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=56977","title":{"rendered":"Squeaker McCarthy&#8217;s Debt Default Deceit is Wrecked By WH Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the deadline for avoiding a catastrophic economic default rapidly approaches, the dishonest rhetoric of Republicans &#8211;  led by GOP House Squeaker, Kevin McCarthy &#8211; escalates to absurd proportions as they remain steadfast in refusing to honor the full faith and credit of the United States by raising the debt ceiling, as previous Congresses have done.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Squeaker McCarthy's Debt Default Deceit is Wrecked By WH Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre%0D&#038;url=https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=56977\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to Tweet this article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Repub\/mccarthy-house-squeaker-trump.jpg\" alt=\"Kevin McCarthy, House Speaker (Squeaker), Donald Trump\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55949\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The determination of Republicans to tank the economy has been evident for months. They hope to use the suffering that they would create to boost their political prospects in 2024. It&#8217;s a cynical and callous strategy that exposes their insensitivity to the hardships it would impose on the American people. And they are supported in this sinister scheme by right-wing media, especially Fox News.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=56099\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sean Hannity and Marjorie Taylor Greene Conspire to Blackmail America with Debt Ceiling Default<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The latest example of the GOP&#8217;s disinformation campaign was contained in a tweet by McCarthy that completely misrepresented reality to blame the current chaos on President Biden. Fortunately, Biden&#8217;s press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, was there to set the record straight in the most succinct and devastating way&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The debt went up more than $20,000 per person during the Trump presidency. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GmyzDAWPZK\">https:\/\/t.co\/GmyzDAWPZK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Karine Jean-Pierre (@PressSec) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PressSec\/status\/1662088553805885441?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 26, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>McCarthy thought he could just brush aside the fact that it was Donald Trump who contributed the most substantial portion of the nation&#8217;s current outstanding debt. But Jean-Pierre&#8217;s observation provided a stark contrast between the $800.00 that McCarthy is whining about and the $20,000.00 that he&#8217;s ignoring.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, McCarthy is making an utterly false assertion that the increased debt that he is misattributing to Biden actually ends up as funds that Americans have to pay each month. In reality, nobody&#8217;s monthly expenses go up as a result of this. It is just tacked onto the accumulated national debt and paid for by future tax revenue. Which, by the way, McCarthy refuses to discuss increasing by revoking the tax cuts that Trump and the GOP gifted to America&#8217;s corporations and the wealthy. He won&#8217;t even entertain closing tax loopholes or auditing tax cheaters.<\/p>\n<p>However, the cuts that McCarthy is holding the nation hostage for, in order to force his broadly unpopular agenda down the country&#8217;s throat, actually do cost people real money in reductions to benefits for Social Security, Medicare, veterans aid, food assistance, infrastructure improvement, education costs, and much more. That amounts to thousands of dollars for millions of Americans, rather than the $800.00 that McCarthy is babbling about.<\/p>\n<p>If McCarthy was truly interested in reducing the debt, he would do what Biden and the Democrats have been doing that resulted in the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/10\/21\/us-budget-deficit-cut-in-half-for-biggest-decrease-ever-amid-covid-spending-declines.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">deficit declining by $1.4 trillion<\/a><\/strong> last year. And for the record, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/national-debt-trump\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump increased the debt by nearly $8 trillion dollars<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 much of that due to his tax cuts that benefited his Mar-a-Lago guests \u2013 and ne\u2019er a word of criticism was heard from the GOP or Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>But then again, if McCarthy was truly interested in anything that the American people want, he and his party wouldn&#8217;t be so reviled by so many.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE THIS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=56223\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Americans are Unsatisfied with Politics in General, But Specifically Despise Trump and the GOP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Be sure to visit and follow News Corpse<br \/>\non <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewsCorpse\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/newscorpse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/newsie.social\/@NewsCorpse\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mastodon<\/a>.<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>And check out my books on Amazon:<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2aOYFpM\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox Nation vs. Reality:<br \/>\nThe Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Thanks so much for your support.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the deadline for avoiding a catastrophic economic default rapidly approaches, the dishonest rhetoric of Republicans &#8211; led by GOP House Squeaker, Kevin McCarthy &#8211; escalates to absurd proportions as they remain steadfast in refusing to honor the full faith and credit of the United States by raising the debt ceiling, as previous Congresses have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[219,1,1200,8,16],"tags":[1141,377,1435,1150,301],"class_list":["post-56977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-general","category-politics","category-propaganda","category-wankery","tag-economy","tag-joe-biden","tag-karine-jean-pierre","tag-kevin-mccarthy","tag-republicans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/mccarthy-house-squeaker-trump.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-eOZ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":56987,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=56987","url_meta":{"origin":56977,"position":0},"title":"Squeaker McCarthy Desperately Lies About the Debt Ceiling Deal to Save His Shaky Speakership","author":"Mark NC","date":"5\/28\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"The morning after it was announced that President Biden and Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy reached a deal to avoid a catastrophic debt default, McCarthy began almost immediately misrepresenting the terms of the deal. 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