GOP Unveils Plan to Raise Debt Limit by $4 trillion

Tuesday, May 13, 2025

House Republicans are moving forward with plans to raise the nation's debt ceiling by $4 trillion as part of a larger plan to advance President Trump's tax agenda.

Posted by qcp at 12:36 PM | 45 COMMENTS | permalink

The Treasury Department announced Friday that Congress must address the debt limit before August.[image or embed]
" Colorado Newsline (@coloradonewsline.com) May 10, 2025 at 11:12 AM

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DOGE was a ------- complete failure.

#1 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-05-13 11:54 AM

"But... Oligarchs need tax cuts!"- said no sane person ever

#2 | Posted by Corky at 2025-05-13 12:43 PM

"During his 2016 campaign, Trump pledged to eliminate the national debt, which was around $19 trillion at the time, within eight years."

So all the BS he spouted about eliminating the debt was just lies.

Or a bait and switch.

Turns out he doesn't want to eliminate the debt at all but is actually gonna raise the debt to a record $23 trillion. Hopefully with most of it ending up in his pockets and the pockets of the wealthy.

How's that FAFO feeling today maga maroons?

But at least we will all get two dolls and five pencils out of the deal.

Yay us!

#3 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-05-13 01:02 PM

Stupid fugging MAGAts...

#4 | Posted by Angrydad at 2025-05-13 01:21 PM

Republicans will raise spend and cut taxes until America goes bankrupt.

While Republicans cheer.

#5 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-13 01:23 PM

Typical republican ploy. Drive up the debt, give billions away to your wealthy donors and then blame Democrats when you are out of the majority. They've been repeating this pattern since Reagan and the American electorate still falls for it.

#6 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2025-05-13 01:32 PM

Like the 100 billion Biden's autopen gifted to the environmental agitprop groups in the final minutes of his administration.

#7 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-05-13 01:39 PM

"Like the 100 billion"

Not anything like that.
That didn't raise the debt limit at all.

#8 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-13 01:41 PM

Like the 100 billion Biden's autopen gifted to the environmental agitprop groups in the final minutes of his administration.

#7 | Posted by visitor_

When you can't justify, just lie.

It's the MAGA way.

#9 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-05-13 01:47 PM

DOGE was a ------- complete failure.

When you look at DOGE from the goal of killing oversight of fElon's companies, it was an astounding success.

It was never intended to cut government waste or fraud. It was all about creating chaos to disguise the goal of killing the government agencies that were holding fElon's companies accountable.

CPB
DOT
NHTSA

All investigations into his companies have been killed.

The outrage over USAID and other programs that were killed were smokescreen to hide his real goals.

#10 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-05-13 01:49 PM

You liberals love upping the debt, you do it while in office too.

It's just the money wont be spent on your pet projects why you are whining so much.

#11 | Posted by boaz at 2025-05-13 01:56 PM

#11 | Posted by boaz

(in a whiny, crybaby voice): "Well...Liberals did it, too!!!"

You are an insufferable idiot.

#12 | Posted by Angrydad at 2025-05-13 02:01 PM

"You liberals love upping the debt, you do it while in office too."

Can't defend.
Forced to deflect.
Didn't do a very good job.

#13 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-13 02:13 PM

Conservatism is on life support.

Don't Call This Conservatism

Much of American conservatism' today doesn't deserve the label.

Historically, in America, a conservative seeks to protect, defend, and pass on to the next generation the principles of the founding and the blessings of liberty.
If you wanted to destroy traditional conservatism, either ideological fusionism or temperamental, you could not design a better instrument than Trump.

archive.ph

#14 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2025-05-13 02:15 PM

You liberals love upping the debt, you do it while in office too.
#11 | Posted by boaz

Well if you want to play that game, little Boaz,
which you do,
Because you can only understand Politics like a Housewife watching her favorite Soap Opera:

Republicans love shutting down the government, then bending the knee and and raising the debt limit.
A pointless, Virtue Signaling theatrical exercise which costs more than simply raising the debt limit.
And you eat it up.

#15 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-13 02:16 PM

#11

So you're just fine with Republicans allowing the wealthy to use the US government as their personal ATM, while YOU pay the bills?

#16 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2025-05-13 02:18 PM

DOGE was a ------- complete failure.

#1 | POSTED BY LEGALLYYOURDEAD

No, it wasn't. Its goals were just not what they claimed.

#17 | Posted by jpw at 2025-05-13 02:29 PM

BAD NEWS FOR AMERICA IS GOOD NEWS FOR DEMOCRATS..

Which is why this would neverbe a "hig headline" thread...
I'M SORRY YOUR WISH FOR THE US ECONOMY TO FOLD IS FADING....AND FADING FAST.

--THINK EARL JAMES JONES VOICE...THIS !! IS CNN !!!

--"US inflation slowed to its lowest rate in more than four years, an unexpected and welcome development at a time when President Donald Trump's dramatically escalated tariffs are expected to cause prices to rise.
Consumer prices rose 0.2% last month, bringing the annual inflation rate to 2.3%, an unexpectedly cooler reading than the 2.4% increase seen in March, according to the latest Consumer Price Index data released Tuesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
It's the lowest annual rate since February 2021, and the April data was slightly better than expected. Economists expected that the CPI would rise 0.3% from March and hold steady at 2.4% for the 12 months ended in April, according to FactSet."
----"US inflation slowed to its lowest rate in more than four years, an unexpected and welcome development at a time when President Donald Trump's dramatically escalated tariffs are expected to cause prices to rise.
Consumer prices rose 0.2% last month, bringing the annual inflation rate to 2.3%, an unexpectedly cooler reading than the 2.4% increase seen in March, according to the latest Consumer Price Index data released Tuesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
It's the lowest annual rate since February 2021, and the April data was slightly better than expected. Economists expected that the CPI would rise 0.3% from March and hold steady at 2.4% for the 12 months ended in April, according to FactSet."
***INFLATION SLOWED TO IT'S LOWEST SINCE FEB 2021 !!!!!!! "

--YOU LIZARDS WANT TO SEE HOW I 'MADE THAT UP".....BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

www.cnn.com

#20 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-05-13 03:29 PM

It's just the money wont be spent on your pet projects why you are whining so much.

#11 | Posted by boaz

COME ON MAAAAAN

You know durn well that we still need another 3 o 5 MILLION dollars to study

mating habits of shrimp on threadmills.....YES idiot children....that was a real thing

#24 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-05-13 03:33 PM

It's just the money wont be spent on your pet projects why you are whining so much.
#11 | Posted by boaz

What will the money be spent on, and why do you support that?

#25 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-13 03:33 PM

"Keep spending as is, including fraud and waste"

Did you ever identify actual fraud and waste, or are you saying cancer research is the fraud and waste?

#27 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-13 03:35 PM

Shrimpy how did you manage to collect 27 bans when there's only like 12 posters?

#23 | Posted by kaos_reig

Because I'm the real life SUPERMAN of truth / justice and the American way !!

and because "The truth shall set you free" has been banned from most leftist sites

-can't be handcuffed by silly stuff like accuracy as well as covering more topics

than what the DNC allows you to post.

seriously...one of them sent me a note that my style....while EXCITING / UNIQUE

HILARIOUS AND CREATIVE fishes up his phone....so I'm making an effort....

#28 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-05-13 03:39 PM

What will the money be spent on, and why do you support that?

#25 | Posted by snoofy

WOW !! hey BOAZ....look at this bouy.......asking a good and serious question...

sniff....sniff....I"m reading it like a proud pappa....who's son has been

released from a coo coo's nest / funny farm / "happy hotel"

#30 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-05-13 03:46 PM

Just cancer research as it relates to gay trans shrimps sexing on a treadmill in a soup of papilloma

#31 | POSTED BY KAOS_REIGNS

So all the firings and government shutdowns are to eliminate one program that you don't like even tho you have no clue what it was about and how much was spent on it?

Anyway. You will be happy to that know the US government never funded such a project.

#33 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-05-13 05:11 PM

Did you ever identify actual fraud and waste, or are you saying cancer research is the fraud and waste?
#27 | Posted by sealion2
-Just cancer research as it relates to gay trans shrimps sexing on a treadmill in a soup of papilloma
#31 | Posted by kaos_reigns

So then why cut all the normal cancer research, seeing as it's not Waste Fraud and Abuse?

#34 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-13 05:26 PM

Anyway. You will be happy to that know the US government never funded such a project.

#33 | Posted by donnerboy

I don't believe you because of your sources but I'll take a high rick that it's right....it's really more of an analogy / metaphor of
things that were funded..

..like the govt spent over a half million dollars
to study how cocaine affects the sexual behavior of japanese quails....

3 million to northwestern to watch hamster fights

Illinois given money to report that honey bees dance more when they're given cocaine.

and several other stupid fishing slitz

FUNDED BY NGOs

google it....and then google hungry kids and homeless vets in the US

#35 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-05-13 05:50 PM

and I didn't mention the millions going to some countries for trannies and others.

condoms..okay.that's worthy in some places..

...like every liberal house hold....

..millions for studies about condoms and f/f/and fanatics ".....no way.

#36 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-05-13 05:54 PM

"it's really more of an analogy / metaphor of
things that were funded.."

We're asking for the actual things that are waste, fraud, and abuse.
We know that you can't name any.
That's why we keep asking.
Because you are liars.

#37 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-13 05:55 PM

3 million to northwestern to watch hamster fights

who thinks these pencil neck geek / eggheads spent three MILLION

on that ?....if you're hand it UP....slap yourself for being stupid.

( that would explain the bandages on clowndung / jpw and truthhux face.

#38 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-05-13 05:59 PM

"3 million to northwestern to watch hamster fights"

That was over twenty years. So it's like $67k a year. Less than a penny from every taxpayer, for twenty years.

Where's the actual significant high dollar waste?

Because it was appropriated by Congress, it is not waste, or fraud, or abuse. You would have to show them embezzling or otherwise misusing funds for it to be fraud, and DOGE has never done that.

Waste and Fraud have specific meanings in government contracts.
"Spending You Don't Like" isn't Waste.
Just like "Sex She Regrets Later" isn't Rape.

#39 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-13 06:08 PM

"govt spent over a half million dollars
to study how cocaine affects the sexual behavior of japanese quails"

Rand Paul: Studying sexual tendency of quails on cocaine is waste of government spending
by KRISTINE FRAZAO, Sinclair Broadcast Group
Mon, July 2nd 2018 at 11:35 PM

"Republicans so far have increased spending by about $300 billion"

wjla.com

So. Who was President in 2018 anyway and why didn't they veto this?

#40 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-13 06:14 PM

They scurry like cockroaches from the light.

#41 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-13 07:37 PM

" You liberals love upping the debt"

Pick up a history book, ffs. One that admits the truth: Republicans changed America's fiscal sights from surpluses to deficits.

Clinton handed off surplus budgets, as far as the eye could see; Dubya handed off the largest deficits known to mankind.

Don't they teach history at West Point???

#42 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-05-13 11:51 PM

You know durn well that we still need another 3 o 5 MILLION dollars to study
mating habits of shrimp on threadmills.....YES idiot children....that was a real thing

#24 | Posted by shrimptacodan

No, that's distortion of reality fed to you by people banking on your being scientifically illiterate and ignorant.

Which is always a good bet.

STFU idiot. You're clueless on everything always because you trust the unscrupulous people selling you fauxrage and nonsense for clicks.

#43 | Posted by jpw at 2025-05-14 10:25 AM

Reagoonietunes proved deficits don't matter.

Dick Chaney said so... it's a fact.

#44 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2025-05-14 10:49 AM

MAGATS are ------- imbeciles.

#45 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-05-14 10:54 AM

It's just the money wont be spent on your pet projects why you are whining so much.

#11 | Posted by boaz a

I forgot to mention yesterday because I was laughing so hard at JPW and snoofy

both for being ignorant.....when jpw says shut up etc that's code for he knows

the truth as I posted it..

snoofy proves he has no cluse what analogy or mataphor mean so he calls it liars.

--but back to reason I soiled my hands by coming here yesterday

I SAW THE HEADLINE...and I Was sure I was going to read a full acceptance trump

doing EXACLY what dems have wanted for so long......but then I opened

it and was reminded who was posting and where....

#46 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-05-14 11:22 AM

before you monkey motes think you've got something to say about some of the words.....words tend to disppear on light or white background disappears.

eye surgery in 2 days.....

#47 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-05-14 11:26 AM

STFU idiot. You're clueless on everything always because you trust the unscrupulous people selling you fauxrage and nonsense for clicks.

#43 | Posted by jpw a

HEY RICHARD.....( figure it out )

as I told one of the few almost sane....( did I just say that ) posters here..

snoofy....

that's used as a metaphor / analogy for all of the stupid fishing slitz your people come up

with and I listed just a couple...google them....I fishing dare you....and any of the other

fishing RICHARDS to do so.

#48 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-05-14 11:30 AM

I have to move to the back page....hoping someone posted about the insurrection

that went on in the rayburn building.....

odds are 1 in 4 million that any of them will spend years in solitary without being charged

#49 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-05-14 11:32 AM

Here are the facts:

GOP in power: Massive increases in debt and deficits for every Republican president since Reagan
DEM in power: Deficits reduced to 1/3 of what the previous GOP administrations had their final budget year

Recently, Trump left a $1.5 trillion deficit his last budget year (2021) after Obama got Bush's $1.4 trillion down to $500b a year his last budget year (2017).

Republicans are the guilty party when it comes to our debt and deficits. Bush-Cheney took us from Clinton's last year of spending ($1.8t) and DOUBLED the debt and DOUBLED SPENDING too. That created systemic deficits and debt that continues to climb at the same time they seek tax cuts (reduced government income),

How is and has it been logical or "fiscally responsible?". Hypocritical at best.

Those are some facts ...

#50 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-05-14 06:14 PM

more of the same

OH WHAT A BEAUTIFUL MORNING....OH WHAT A BEAUTIFUL DAY.....
OH WHAT A BEAUTIFUL MORNING.....EVERYTHINGS GOING TRUMPS WAY

JP MORGAN who I read right here !!!! in the absolute source on this kind of thing
Today lowered their rick of a recession....yeah it's down from 60 to 50.....50 / 5o
for you remedial math folks but the trend is absolutely downward.
UNLESS you've "changed your mind" abou jp////BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

oh yeah....google it....I fishing DARE you...

#51 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-05-14 08:39 PM

both for being ignorant.....when jpw says shut up etc that's code for he knows
the truth as I posted it..

No, when I say it it's because you've said something stupid.

#52 | Posted by jpw at 2025-05-15 09:07 AM

Don't Call This Conservatism

The GOP has not been conservative since Nixon.

Since Raygun they have been borrow and spend in order to bankrupt the nation in a futile attempt to kill Medicare and Social Security.

It may take them a hundred years, but they are hell bent on accomplishing it.

By the time they get it done, it will be too late to correct course and America will be dead.

But the 1% will have their castles and private security and the rest of the public can ---- off.

#53 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-05-15 09:12 AM

The GOP tax bill is on track to add more than $2.5 trillion to U.S. deficit.

The cost of the bill is likely to amount to more than $2.5 trillion " and as much as $3.3 trillion, counting the interest owed on new debt.

And Trump wants to keep tax cuts in place for people who don't need them! "Fiscal conservatives" my ---."

#54 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-05-15 09:33 AM

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