GOP Rep. Nancy Mace blasts Biden, McCarthy debt ceiling deal: 'Republicans got outsmarted'

Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C. is denouncing the debt limit deal struck by House Republicans and President Joe Biden, targeting government spending and other elements of the agreement.

“Washington is broken,” the South Carolina lawmaker tweeted Tuesday morning. “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,” she added.

Mace accused the deal of normalizing “record high spending started during the pandemic.” The deal caps annual discretionary spending for two years, keeping nondefense funding levels roughly flat next year and raising it by 1% in 2025.

Mace also argued that “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,” she shared.

The deal raises the debt limit on how much the government can borrow until 2025.

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Mace also criticized other elements of the deal, including funding cuts to the Internal Revenue Service and work requirements provisions for some aid programs. The Republican lawmaker called for additional cuts and stronger limitations, saying “Washington is, was and always will be lousy” at spending Americans’ tax dollars.

It's not the first time Mace has been called out her Republican colleagues.

The lawmaker last month urged fellow GOP lawmakers to find a middle ground on abortion rights in the country and "no longer be silent" on gun violence.

"Every time there’s a mass shooting, and they’re increasing every year, every week, we don’t say anything. We want to bury our heads in the sand and hope that it goes away. But guess what? It’s not going away,” Mace said on Fox News Sunday.

Several conservative Republicans, including some members from the House Freedom Caucus, say the cuts to the budget in the deal aren't enough.

Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., on Monday also criticized the agreement, tweeting: “Give me a break. It’s a win for Washington.”

Some progressive lawmakers have also criticized the deal, though Biden told reporters on Monday that he’s encouraging Democrats with doubts to simply “talk to me.”

Biden and McCarthy are counting on garnering enough support from lawmakers closer to the center to pass the bill and avoid a catastrophic default on the nation's debt.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen last week updated her timeline for when the government could run out of money, saying her projection is now by June 5.

Contributing: Joey Garrison, USA TODAY; Associated Press

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