#shorts On 5/26/2023, Speaker Kevin McCarthy said, “I mean, it’s really coming down to one thing. This has been about spending. The Democrats have never wanted to stop the amount of spending that they’re going. They want to just keep adding and adding and adding. I do not think it’s right that you borrow money from China to pay people to stay home, that are able-bodied with no dependence, on the couch. That is not the American way. That is not what we believe, and I’m going to work as hard as we can to try to get this done, get more progress today, and finish the job.

I’m a total optimist. Think about how we started this whole point. I sat with the president on February 1st. We want to know if I’m an optimist or not. He said he wouldn’t even meet with me. We wouldn’t even negotiate. It took us 97 days till we even could start. Took us another like two weeks to be able to get into the room. But now we’ve got a short time frame. We’re going to work hard to make sure we get this.

other clips of this published longer video is here: https://youtu.be/zivKLY1zgf0
McCarthy: not to pay people to stay home, that are able-bodied with no dependence, on the couch