Ahead of debt limit talks, GOP Sen. Lankford says he hopes Pres. Biden and Republican leaders can find “common ground' on spending.
May 7, 2023, 12:07 PMSenator James Lankford during a hearing of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on at the Capitol, April 18, 2023.Sen. James Lankford on Sunday previewed what he would like to see when President Joe Biden meets with Speaker Kevin McCarthy and other congressional leaders on Tuesday to talk about"I would hope that they would all sit down and be able to talk about, 'OK, what are the parameters? Where are we?'" Lankford, R-Okla.
He echoed other Republicans who feel that debt and spending negotiations should have started months ago. Biden and McCarthy last met on the issue in February. "I don't find a single American, whether they're around government or not around government, that says, 'The federal government spends every dollar perfectly; there's nowhere in federal spending we can cut; everything's very efficient,'" Lankford said Sunday.
"I know he wants to set up a process in which spending priorities and levels are discussed and negotiated," Yellen said on Sunday,. "But these negotiations should not take place with a gun, really, to the head of the American people." He also pushed back on criticism that only conservatives use the debt ceiling to enact budget and spending changes -- and he singled out past votes to that effect by then-Sen. Biden.
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