Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Sunday accused President Joe Biden of “behaving like a terrorist” in the fight over the debt ceiling as the prospect of default this summer looms large over Washington.
During an interview on Fox News, Cruz encouraged Biden to rethink his opposition to the legislation narrowly passed last week by the GOP-led House that would suspend the debt ceiling through March 31, 2024, or until an increase in debt of $1.5 trillion – whichever comes first – in exchange for a host of spending cuts.
“I’ve got some advice for Joe Biden on the debt ceiling, someone he should listen to. President Biden should listen to Joe Biden. Joe Biden in 2011 was the vice president,” Cruz said on “Sunday Morning Futures.”
“Republicans had taken the House. Republicans held a hard line on the debt ceiling,” Cruz recalled. “And Joe Biden, then-vice president, went and personally negotiated the deal that became the Budget Control Act, a bill that was designed to cut over $2 trillion in our debt. Read more…
