At a sprawling press conference overshadowed by the Republican speaker, the theme was less spending than anger.
This exchange, the culmination of the press conference, encapsulated the event. Talk about the debt served as a gateway into talking about other, more blood-boiling issues. Government spending is too high, speakers argued … because of “woke deficit spending” or because federal law enforcement was targeting Biden’s political enemies. Sens.
“Are we going to continue to fund, Republicans in the House, the wild abuse by the Biden administration of its political opponents?” Fitton said. “The mass censorship of tens of millions of Americans? The border invasion we’ve heard so much about and the other wild abuses of power that are right now fully funded with Congress?”Sure, strike the “mass censorship” line item from the appropriate department’s funding resolution. We can all support that.
It’s a cudgel. It’s using spending bills as a means of talking about these other issues. It’s the old Tea Party trick: I am simply against how much the government is spending … on programs that I object to because they are woke. Brandon of FreedomWorks was at least focused in his objections. That young Americans don’t see the federal debt as a preeminent concern, though, shouldn’t be a surprise even independently of Tuesday’s context. Concerns about the scale of the debt have been a regular feature of political discourse since millennials were kids. And before that.
So, seeing debt as a less-than-existential threat, millennial and other voters are left to observe the other political stands that the Freedom Caucus et al are espousing. And, it seems, many aren’t convinced that Boebert, Perry and Higgins are their best advocates.
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