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New York Post, May 31, 2023<\/h3>\n

Get them rewrite! Debt-ceiling deal fails to fix DC<\/a>\"\"<\/a><\/h1>\n

by James Bovard<\/p>\n

The biggest peril of the Biden-McCarthy budget deal is spawning the illusion federal spending is under control. Both President Joe Biden and Republican congressional leaders can claim victory and lull Americans into believing rising national debt is no longer a deadly financial peril to their future. But there is a better way.<\/p>\n

This debt-ceiling raise is another profound failure of the DC political class that perpetually spends trillions of dollars it doesn\u2019t have. Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) condemns the deal: \u201cNo one sent us here to borrow an additional $4 trillion to get absolutely nothing in return.\u201d Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) laments that \u201cgovernment [spending] grew 40% or by $2 trillion from 2019 to 2023.\u201d<\/p>\n

Many Republicans complain the agreement locks in higher COVID-era spending levels.<\/p>\n

The deal suspends the debt ceiling until January 2025. Considering politicians\u2019 reckless spending proclivity, this sounds like a St. Augustine \u201csolution\u201d: \u201cLord, give me chastity and self-control \u2014 but not yet.\u201d<\/p>\n

The deal \u201cpapers over\u201d this year\u2019s $1.5 trillion budget deficit. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) translates that into everyday American life: \u201cWe\u2019ll be taking out a second mortgage this week to pay off the credit cards but it\u2019s not until September that we\u2019re actually buying the bass boat, the tanning bed, and a big screen TV.\u201d<\/p>\n

The budget deal applies the ultimate fuzzy math to federal spending levels. If you or I cut our grocery budget, we have less money for food. When Congress cuts \u201cdiscretionary spending,\u201d it is like someone planning to buy caviar and instead purchasing foie gras and truffles and then boasting of his frugality.<\/strong><\/p>\n

House members can contemplate that paradox while enjoying the $79 tax-free daily meal allowance (no receipts needed, wink wink) they recently gave themselves.<\/p>\n

Before celebrating the latest accord, recall how previous budget deals were Pyrrhic victories for taxpayers:<\/p>\n

* In 2011, a bipartisan deal supposedly cut federal spending by $38 billion \u2014 out of $3.8 trillion. The Congressional Budget Office later revealed the actual amount saved was only $352 million in that fiscal year. Unfortunately, a 99% sham rate is about par for spending cuts. As CNN noted, \u201cCongress watered down the [2011] deficit reduction provisions by repeatedly increasing the caps on discretionary spending in the following years.\u201d<\/p>\n

* In 2015, Republican congressional leaders bragged that a $1 trillion spending deal with President Barack Obama \u201chelps to stop waste and administrative overreach.\u201d But the only \u201cpro-freedom\u201d mandate in the 2,000-page bill was a request for the Capitol Police to permit snow sledding on Capitol Hill. Spending kept rising.<\/p>\n

Some Republicans favor approving the Biden-McCarthy deal and trusting House members to repair the damage. But oversight of federal spending is the only unnatural act on Capitol Hill.<\/strong> As Milton Berle quipped, \u201cYou can lead a man to Congress, but you can\u2019t make him think.\u201d<\/p>\n

Control over spending confers control over policy if politicians have brains and courage. But both are AWOL in the debt deal:<\/strong><\/p>\n

* The FBI budget has increased from $9.2 billion in 2019 to $10.8 billion in 2023 \u2014 even though the FBI refuses to provide Congress with the memo alleging Vice President Biden took a bribe in 2011. Speaker Kevin McCarthy threatened Tuesday to file contempt charges against FBI boss Chris Wray for not providing that memo. That\u2019s an idle threat since it would need to be enforced by Merrick Garland\u2019s Justice Department.<\/p>\n

* The IRS gets 98% of the $80 billion budget increase the Democratic Congress provided last summer. Rep. Dan Bishop (R-NC) scoffed: \u201cSo there will be 85,260 more IRS agents rather than 87,000 to eat you alive. Big win.\u201d The IRS will face no penalty for recently dismissing the entire team of its experts investigating Hunter Biden\u2019s tax frauds.<\/p>\n

* The National Institutes for Health budget rose from $39 billion in 2019 to $49 billion in 2023. NIH flaunted its contempt for Congress this month by restarting its financing of bat-coronavirus research in China \u2014 despite the 7 million deaths from the COVID leak from the Wuhan lab that NIH previously bankrolled.<\/p>\n

The debt-ceiling deal should be named \u201cThe No Biden Boondoggle Left Behind Act.<\/strong>\u201d Biden economic adviser Bharat Ramamurti boasted Tuesday that the deal is “locking in” their \u201cincredibly strong set of progressive accomplishments.\u201d<\/p>\n

McCarthy claims victory in part because the deal expands the work requirement for able-bodied food-stamp recipients without dependents by raising the age cutoff from 49 to 54. That\u2019s a healthy reform to spur self-reliance. But the impact will be blunted because the feds previously granted statewide waivers exempting most food-stamp recipients nationwide from work. When Congress passed a similar mandate in the Food Stamp Act of 1977, fewer than 1% of able-bodied adults required to register for work actually got jobs.<\/p>\n

Roy is leading a push to reject the Biden-McCarthy deal and instead \u201cpass a short-term debt ceiling\u201d extension. That would provide time to negotiate a far better deal, something much closer to the stalwart reform bill the House passed last month. Another short period of political uncertainty is far better than taking another giant step towards national financial ruin.<\/p>\n

James Bovard is the author of 10 books and a member of the USA Today Board of Contributors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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