Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis was not overly impressed by the news of a debt-ceiling budget deal between Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and President Joe Biden.
While many Republicans touted the deal as a win for their side, GOP Rep. Chip Roy of Texas, a leading conservative, called the agreement a “turd sandwich.”
DeSantis did not go that far, but he told Fox News on Monday that he didn’t see little had changed about Washington’s big spending ways.
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“Prior this deal, our country was careening towards bankruptcy. And after this deal, our country will still be careening towards bankruptcy,” said DeSantis. “To say you can do $4 trillion of increases in the next year and a half — I mean, that’s a massive amount of spending.”
DeSantis added, “I think we’ve gotten ourselves on a trajectory — really since March of 2020 with some of the COVID spending — to totally reset the budget, and they’re sticking with that.”
“I think that’s going to be totally inadequate to get us in a better spot.”
The governor then cited Florida’s own sound state budget policies, which help manage a $1.2 trillion economy that carries only $17 billion of debt, the second-lowest total in the country on a per-capita basis.
“We make tough choices, and we make sure we look forward to the long haul,” said DeSantis.
“Obviously, in Washington, D.C., they do these cycles to get them through the next election, and that’s ultimately one of the reasons why they continue to fail.”
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According to The Hill, Roy, a DeSantis supporter, denounced the McCarthy-Biden deal because it froze spending for two years without producing any cuts and made no promise to do that once the deal ends.
The plan also failed to eliminate clean energy tax incentives Republicans wanted gone, excluded work requirements for Medicaid recipients, and did nothing about border security.
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