The real interests of the Republican Party in the debt ceiling negotiations were not actually about spending, or the national debt. Rather, they were about consolidating power and wealth for those who already have it.
For any politicians earnestly looking to save the government money, limiting the enormous Pentagon budget and catching tax cheats should have been low-hanging fruit. That just the opposite happened is all the proof anyone should need that the size of the debt is not what’s truly behind these demands for most conservatives in Congress.
Instead, the perennial conservative push to defund social programs, paired with protectionism for corporations, the wealthy and the military, is conservative in another sense: It seeks to conserve power and wealth by preventing redistribution that might tip the scales of power in the country or in the world.
The antidote is to do the reverse: Reinvest in programs that boost economic mobility and those that limit power for corporations and the wealthy, and introduce new limits and accountability for programs that maintain power through force.
The budget deal passed by Congress and signed by President Biden provides a $28 billion, or 3 percent,compared to legislated levels for this year. That’s compared to a legislated $63 billion, or 8 percent, cut for domestic programs overall. But veterans’ programs, which are considered to be part of the nonmilitary budget, also get a boost in the deal, meaning cuts for the remaining domestic programs must go even deeper.
Demanding more money for the Pentagon as part of this deal required conservatives to do some impressive maneuvering around facts. In the last days of negotiations,
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