With just weeks to go, the state Legislature lasted week agreed to allow school districts across Arizona to spend the money this academic year that they already have.
The House voted to waive the aggregate expenditure limit (AEL) today with bipartisan support, clearing the two-thirds majority necessary to send it forward. The resolution, sponsored by Rep. David Cook, R-Globe, needed 40 votes to pass and received 46.
spending caps would expire after 2021. that pelosi example is not the same as what mccarthy and his caucus are talking about, cut government spending creating a new spending cap. in fact, don, basically the opposite. daniel, also been hearing speaker mccarthy repeat the republican talking point getting rid of tens of thousands of irs agents. listen to this. we put out a commitment to america to tell them exactly what we would do if they gave us the power. and in this first week we continue to keep that commitment. we repealed 87,000 irs agents. is that accurate? don, mccarthy is wrong in two ways here. first of all house republicans didn t actually repeal anything. they did vote to repeal, passed a bill to repeal more than 70 billion in new irs funding but that bill is not getting through the senate or president biden. so they have not changed the law. second of all, this frequent republican talking point you hear how democrats are hiring
your words. daniel, good morning. you found some of mccarthy s claims misleading and some just plain wrong. let s start with the speaker using nancy pelosi s name to defend his position on the debt ceiling. listen. when trump was president and nancy pelosi was speaker they became a debt ceiling agreement and a cap agreement two years to cap spending and make those decisions. daniel what did you find? don, this stuff is highly misleading. mccarthy is trying to say, look, why is it crazy for us republicans to impose a spending cap, nancy pelosi, democrat, did it in 2019. that s not actually what happened. the 2019 pelosi deal did loosen, soften, raise, a pre-existing spending cap already in effect because of a 2011 law known answer the budget control act. pelosi got the government to spend tens of billions of additional dollars over and above the cap that was already in place at the time, and her deal ensured these discretionary