Juan Briceno  Yes, "legislative terrorists ummm really". It's not so much what kind of Federal government the Freedom Caucus wants, it's that they believe they ought to make that decision for everyone. They want a small, weak, government who only spends its money on defense and border control? Fine. However, there is a democratic process, and it doesn't involve holding the government hostage until they get their way. Regarding "spending as (sic) there is no tomorrow", consider the following summary Professor Heather Cox Richardson: "In fact, the national debt skyrocketed under Republican president Donald Trump even before the pandemic, thanks to the big tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy that the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated would increase deficits by almost $2 trillion over eleven years. In 2019, before the coronavirus pandemic hit, the debt had grown to $22 trillion. Trump called it a crisis, but his budget that year increased the debt to $23.2 trillion. The CBO warned that the U.S. had never seen deficits so large in a time of high employment...At 5.2% of GDP, the growth of the deficit under Trump was third largest in our history, behind only that under Presidents George W. Bush—who launched two unfunded wars after passing a tax cut and thus presided over deficit growth of 11.7%"

Juan Briceno  Yes, "legislative terrorists ummm really". It's not so much what kind of Federal government the Freedom Caucus wants, it's that they believe they ought to make that decision for everyone. They want a small, weak, government who only spends its money on defense and border control? Fine. However, there is a democratic process, and it doesn't involve holding the government hostage until they get their way. Regarding "spending as (sic) there is no tomorrow", consider the following summary Professor Heather Cox Richardson: "In fact, the national debt skyrocketed under Republican president Donald Trump even before the pandemic, thanks to the big tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy that the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated would increase deficits by almost $2 trillion over eleven years. In 2019, before the coronavirus pandemic hit, the debt had grown to $22 trillion. Trump called it a crisis, but his budget that year increased the debt to $23.2 trillion. The CBO warned that the U.S. had never seen deficits so large in a time of high employment...At 5.2% of GDP, the growth of the deficit under Trump was third largest in our history, behind only that under Presidents George W. Bush—who launched two unfunded wars after passing a tax cut and thus presided over deficit growth of 11.7%"

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