For Star subscribers: Rep. Juan Ciscomani should negotiate spending cuts the old fashioned way rather than use default as leverage in budget negotiations.
He says he still is, and what he's doing now shows that.Ciscomani, the freshman Republican who represents much of the Tucson area as well as southeastern Arizona in the U.S. House, has gone along with the GOP plan to use the threat of debt default as a political lever. They want to force Democrats and President Joe Biden to accept spending cuts, or else.People are also reading… Now, Ciscomani insists that he would never support a default.
Spending, it seems, is only a crisis worthy of the threat of default when Democrats are in the White House. Since the plan is so short on details and open to interpretation, Democrats have taken the opportunity to interpret it for voters. The point is that nobody should use the threat of defaulting on our debt and crashing the economy as leverage to win a political battle, even one over spending. These are, after all, debts we've already accrued.Now, Ciscomani says that the bill is part of a negotiation. It's the Republicans giving the Democrats something to respond to.But this is the wrong context, in my view. Biden, too, has put out a plan — his proposed 2024 budget.
"It is fundamentally irresponsible to threaten to tank the economy in order to get your way in budget negotiations," she told me Tuesday."It is the responsibility of Congress to work out a budget. Part of that process is also tackling a deficit."
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