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The Senate on Thursday night approved the debt ceiling bill “negotiated” by Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Joe Biden.

The vote tally was 63-36.

NEWS: 63-36, Senate gives final approval of a bill to suspend the debt limit until January 2025, ending a tense several weeks in Washington and a bitter partisan standoff that ultimately ended with a McCarthy-Biden deal that faced bipartisan support and opposition in both houses.

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) June 2, 2023

46 Democrats rubberstamped the bill along with 17 GOP sellouts. 30 Republicans stood with We the People along with 6 Democrats.

Here is the full vote breakdown:

Credit: Senate.gov

The bill now goes to Biden’s desk and he will sign it into law.

As TGP’s Kristinn Taylor previously reported, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) laid out the brutal truth on the debt ceiling bill in an epic Twitter thread Tuesday. She succinctly explained why “Republicans got outsmarted by a President who can’t find his pants”

For the complete thread on Twitter, click on this tweet:

Washington is broken.

Republicans got outsmarted by a President who can’t find his pants.

I’m voting NO on the debt ceiling debacle because playing the DC game isn’t worth selling out our kids and grandkids.

— Rep. Nancy Mace (@RepNancyMace) May 30, 2023

Here are the most relevant observations from Mace:

This “deal” normalizes record high spending started during the pandemic. It sets these historically high spending levels as the baseline for all future spending. The bill then grows govt even more each year at about ~1%.

This deal keeps that record high spending intact and makes it the baseline for all spending

The bill doesn’t actually set a debt limit. Rather it suspends the debt limit entirely until Jan. 2, 2025 and there is no actual amount capping the debt ceiling.

They tell us this bill cuts $41b in its first year; about the same amount as the unspent COVID funds. Pretty convenient. Also not a cut.

A $1.4b cut to the IRS doesn’t equal $80b in cuts to the IRS. Nor does it mean we are “gutting” the IRS or its 87k new hires. Allegedly there will be $10b cut off top for 2024 during the approps process. But it’s also not in bill. That money can be cut anywhere the IRS decides.

Work requirements for SNAP moved from age 50 to 54 and student loan forgiveness EO repeal never happened. Not sure why anyone even bothered here.

Manchin’s carve out for his pipeline is not germane to the bill. This is just your run of the mill govt picking winners and losers in the market and business as usual in Washington.

Fully funds every spending request by the Administration (pretty much).

Arguably the worst part of the “Fiscal Responsibility Act” is the funding for the IRS agents. As Jim Hoft notes, nearly 87,000 new IRS thugs hired by the Biden regime will still be able to bully working-class Americans and conservative groups thanks to the House’s surrender.

The so-called “Inflation Reduction Act” previously gave $79.6 billion to the IRS over the next 10 years.

The Gateway Pundit previously reported that House Freedom Caucus Chairman Scott Perry left open the possibility of filing a motion to vacate and get rid of McCarthy if the Speaker pushes through the debt deal. One member has already signaled his support.

Under new House rules, it only takes one member of Congress, from either party, to bring a “motion to vacate” which forces a vote on removing the Speaker of the House.

It would only take a simple majority vote to remove McCarthy.

Let’s hope conservatives have the courage to pull the trigger on the motion to vacate and hold McCarthy accountable.

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Katie Hobbs refused to answer questions from The Gateway Pundit regarding the stolen midterm election and new evidence of fraudulent signature verification in the election that she oversaw as Secretary of State.

Hobbs, while wearing a leg cast, held a press conference earlier “to give an update on Arizona’s water resources and highlight new investments toward securing the state’s water future” with Arizona Department of Water Resources Director Tom Buschatzke.

Hobbs told curious reporters she has a “stress fracture” but did not elaborate further.

After giving a scripted speech to the press, Hobbs took questions about Arizona’s water and other issues but refused to answer TGP correspondent Jordan Conradson’s questions about the election that a majority of Arizonans believe was rigged with broken voting machines and signature verification fraud and the ongoing election lawsuits.

Katie Hobbs responded, calling the questions “conspiracy theories” and claiming that it is not in her jurisdiction, despite her role in the election as Secretary of State.

The Gateway Pundit reported on a recent Rasmussen poll of likely Arizona voters, showing that Kari Lake won by a landslide 8 points against corrupt Democrat Katie Hobbs, who oversaw her own election and disenfranchisement against Lake voters as Secretary of State. Additionally, 55% of Arizona voters, including 72% of Republicans, 26% of Democrats, and 47% of independents say it was likely that intentional voter suppression against Republican voters occurred when 59% of machines failed on Election Day.

The Gateway Pundit also reported on Kari Lake’s recent signature verification trial, which revealed that approximately 274,000 ballot signatures were compared and verified in less than three seconds. Kari Lake’s attorney, Kurt Olsen, told the Court that  “eleven of the signature verification workers approved 170k signatures at a rate of less than 0 and 2.99 seconds with a 99.97% approval rating.” This data is proven by Maricopa County’s own log file data.

Some in attendance, including Katie Hobbs and her leftwing media team, laughed at the questions. Leftwing hack reporter Howie Fischer even answered one of the questions for Hobbs by yelling at Conradson, “you’re not a reporter!”

However, when Maricopa County officials sought to prevent TGP reporter Jordan Conradson from attending briefings before the 2022 midterm elections by claiming he was not a real reporter, the U.S. Court of Appeals concluded this was unconstitutional and set a historic new precedent for independent journalists.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, Conradson recently destroyed Fischer at a Kari Lake press conference by exposing his crude jokes about Lake and his anti-Republican agenda. It appears that he was just trying to get payback.

Watch below:

Conradson: With the majority of Arizonans, including 72% of Republicans, 26% of Democrats, and 47% of independents saying it was likely that intentional failures on election day, the election that you ran, caused disenfranchisement of Republican voters, and there’s ongoing lawsuits…

Hobbs: Next question.

Conradson:  No, no, answer my question because this is a much bigger issue than water. Why should you be making decisions on Arizona’s water future and decisions in general in Arizona?

Hobbs: I’m not going to address your conspiracy theory, Jordan.

Conradson: What do you think of signature verification in the 2022 election where signature verification employees were clicking through signatures in 1, 2, 3 seconds? You know, you wrote the Elections Procedures Manual with signature verification guidelines. What do you think of that? Is one second enough to verify a signature?

Hobbs: I don’t have a comment on it. It’s not something that is under my jurisdiction.

Conradson: It was under your jurisdiction. You ran your own election. Why won’t you answer election questions when a majority of Arizonans don’t think the election was fair?

Fischer: Because you’re not a reporter.

Conradson: Says Howie. Good one. Why don’t you tell Maricopa County that?

WATCH:

Watch the entire press conference below:

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