U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan spent the evening before a House of Representatives vote on President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s budget deal urging his reluctant colleagues to support it.
” that would increase the national debt, Champaign County’s Jordan says he’s making private pitches for the deal to GOP congress members, and gave a House Republican Conference meeting a rundown of why he supports it.
“That gives us, I think, a chance – a much better chance – of getting the policy changes we want in law,” Jordan said in a Wednesday interview where he argued that emergency stopgap bills are usually packed with measures that wouldn’t pass Congress under ordinary circumstances, like a reauthorization of government surveillance programs.
Of the $80 billion that the Inflation Reduction Act included to bolster Internal Revenue Service enforcement, customer service and technology improvements, it would repurpose $10 billion in 2024 and $10 billion in 2025 to other non-defense priorities.that it would cut unnecessary spending, including $400 million from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Global Health Fund, which during the pandemic directed funds to countries like China.
“Bottom line: while this deal is not perfect, it is a big step in the right direction for our country,” Miller continued.
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