.HayesBrown: The math just ain’t mathing here — and McCarthy must surely know that.
All of this poses a political threat to McCarthy, who seems likely to be forced to either cave on his demands, accept a proposed off-ramp like the, or be responsible for a global financial crisis. But before we even get to that point, McCarthy has a bigger problem: math.
It’s unclear that any combo of cuts that would substantially reduce the federal deficit could even pass muster inside the GOP caucus. At this point, the speaker has yet to specify what needs to be cut from the federal budget in order to satisfy his members. Running through the options he could potentially bring to, it quickly becomes obvious that there’s almost no set of proposed cuts that would be acceptable to the White House or the Senate. Moreover, it’s unclear that any combo that would substantially reduce the federal deficit could even pass muster inside the GOP caucus.
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