A full breakdown of Biden and McCarthy's deal to raise the debt limit to $35 trillion: What the House speaker gave up in the final package conservatives are calling 'insanity' and a 'turd sandwich'

• McCarthy unveiled the 99-page bill raising the debt ceiling to avoid defaulting on Sunday
• Some Republicans aren't pleased with details of the bill, claiming it's like writing a 'blank check' to Democrats
• DailyMail.com breaks down what made it into the deal and what didn't

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is facing criticism from members of his own political party on a debt ceiling deal he struck over the weekend with President Biden that hard line conservatives say doesn't go far enough to curb federal spending.

The 99-page bill released Sunday would raise the debt ceiling by $4 trillion to a total of $35 trillion and suspend the nation's debt limit through 2025 to avoid a federal default.

Republicans, who only wanted to raise the limit by $1.5 trillion, are calling the deal a 'blank check' to Democrats because it does not fully rescind all $80 billion in IRS funding or the 87,000 new agents, fails to cap federal spending for 10 years and does not reclaim all $50 billion in unspent COVID funds.

Progressives are opposed to some of the proposed changes to work requirements in social programs including food stamps.

Now both the Democratic president and Republican speaker are trying to win over skeptical lawmakers in order to stave off default by June 5, the 'x-date' when Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said the U.S. could default on its debt obligations.

'Conservatives have been sold out once again!' lamented Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and Republican Rep. Chip Roy from Texas called the agreement a 'turd-sandwich.'

DailyMail.com breaks down what made it in and what got cut from the debt ceiling deal and how lawmakers are reacting now that the full text is available.

DEBT LIMIT SUSPENSION FOR TWO YEARS

The cornerstone of the deal includes a two-year suspension of the debt limit until January 2025 after the next presidential election.

Republicans are taking issue with the $4 trillion ceiling increase, saying there could be virtually unlimited spending for the last two years of Biden's first term.

The GOP had backed a deal in which the debt ceiling was only raised by $1.5 trillion - which was not agreed to.

The agreement also limits spending by keeping all non-defense appropriations roughly flat in Fiscal Year 2024 and increasing it by only one percent the following year - a point that conservatives are taking issue with since they urged a freeze on all federal spending for 10 years.

Congress is also required under the new bill to approve 12 annual spending bills or face a snapback to spending limits from the previous year.

The White House predicts the plan would reduce government spending by $1 trillion, but Republicans are calling them 'fake' spending cuts.

'Fake conservatives agree to fake spending cuts,' Sen. Paul tweeted. 'Deal will increase mandatory spending ~5%, increase military spending ~3%, and maintain current non-military discretionary spending at post-COVID levels.'

'No real cuts to see here.'

Rep. Norman of South Carolina called the deal 'insanity' said he won't 'vote to bankrupt...

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‘Folks On The Far Left Are Cheerleading’: Ted Cruz Reacts To Kevin McCarthy’s Debt Ceiling Deal

Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz reacted harshly on Monday to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s debt ceiling agreement with President Joe Biden.

Cruz spoke about the debt ceiling deal on his podcast, “Verdict with Ted Cruz,” and highlighted how Democrats reacted positively to the agreement.

“Look, if you want to know how to assess this deal, one of the ways to do so is listen to what the Democrats are saying. There, Joe Biden is urging every Democrat to support it,” Cruz said 21 minutes into his Monday podcast episode. He mentioned tweets by former White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain and prominent never-Trumper Bill Kristol.

“As to that last question, hell no Bill, and you have Trump derangement syndrome, which makes you think the country is better off handing our nation over to out of control Marxists than actually winning policy victories in the White House. But that does tell you something about how people are reacting to this deal that folks on the far left are cheerleading it right now.”

Cruz followed up by giving his assessment of the specific provisions laid out in the debt ceiling agreement. “And so if you just think in terms of big picture comparison, increasing the debt limit from 1.5 trillion to 4 trillion is a big increase. And the spending reductions are much, much smaller. That’s the biggest reason I’m disappointed by what we’re looking at.”

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Regime Apparatchiks and Sadists Inflict Their Punishments

The government goose steppers responsible for destroying the lives of Americans who dared to protest Biden’s election appear gratified by the exercise—as all good Marxists are.

Matthew Graves wasted no time doing the political dirty work of the man who appointed him to serve as the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia: Joe Biden.

The Biden regime, Attorney General Merrick Garland in particular, faced heat in late 2021 for failing to bring harsher charges against Americans who protested Biden’s election on January 6. Garland was on the defensive for seeking mostly misdemeanor charges, giving the Right ammunition to mock the media’s description of the four-hour disturbance as an “insurrection.”

Enter Graves, the man responsible for prosecuting every January 6 case.

Shortly after taking the reins of the powerful office, Graves charged 11 members or affiliates of the Oath Keepers, including founder Stewart Rhodes, with seditious conspiracy, the most serious charge brought by the Justice Department in the unprecedented criminal investigation. Created during the Civil War as an alternative to treason to punish supporters of the Confederacy, seditious conspiracy is tantamount to waging war against the United States government.

Graves’ indictment not only broke new legal ground to criminalize political speech but lent credence to Biden’s claims made during his speech on the afternoon of January 6 that what was happening at the Capitol “border[ed] on sedition.” Garland’s office announced the indictment in a lengthy press release on January 13, 2022 to great fanfare. Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin awarded Garland with her “distinguished pol of the week” prize for “dramatically ratchet[ing] up the investigation.”

Considering a federal judge tossed the exceedingly rare charge out of court in 2010, the last time the government attempted to prosecute Americans for seditious conspiracy, one might assume the Justice Department would have an uphill battle to make the indictments stick. In fact, prosecutors recently admitted that only a “handful” of individuals, all tied to Islamic terror cells including al-Qaeda and the Taliban, have been convicted of seditious conspiracy in the past several decades. For example, Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and nine others were charged and convicted of seditious conspiracy for the 1993 World Trade Center bombings that left six dead and more than 1,000 injured.

How could the charge apply to U.S. citizens who merely entered a government building—Rhodes and one other defendant, incidentally, never went inside—carried no weapons, assaulted no one, and vandalized no property? How would an individual “wage war” against the United States by posting inflammatory text messages and videos?

Those questions, however, did not concern Judge Amit Mehta, appointed to the D.C. District Court by Barack Obama in 2014. Mehta is overseeing a majority of the most consequential January 6 cases including a civil suit filed by Democratic members of Congress against Donald Trump, the Oath Keepers, and the Proud Boys seeking damages for the events of January 6.

Mehta refused to delay the Oath Keepers’ high-profile criminal trial even as jury selection and proceedings coincided with televised hearings of the January 6 committee, which repeatedly blamed the Oath Keepers for initiating the “attack” on the Capitol. Voir dire, Mehta insisted as he also denied change of venue motions, would weed out biased jurors. He has handed down the harshest sentences to date.

And on Thursday, he issued the longest prison term yet for a January 6 defendant; Mehta sentenced Rhodes to 18 years in prison.

Mehta also became the first judge in U.S. history to add a terrorism enhancement to the prison sentence of an American citizen convicted of seditious conspiracy, “one of the most serious offenses any American can commit,” Mehta told Rhodes prior to announcing the groundbreaking judgment in the E. Barrett Prettyman federal courthouse on Thursday. Graves’ office is seeking terrorism sentencing enhancements for eight more Oath Keepers, including five convicted of seditious conspiracy.

Mehta took his time berating Rhodes. “You, sir, present an ongoing threat and a peril to this country, to the republic and to the very fabric of our democracy. You are smart, you are compelling, and you are charismatic. Frankly, that is what makes you dangerous.”

But Stewart Rhodes and the Oath Keepers are not a “threat” to the country or a “peril” to the “fabric of our democracy,” whatever that dramatic nonsense means. They are not “dangerous”—they are powerless, bankrupt, broken, isolated, and ruined for life. They traveled to the nation’s capital to protest an election that by every measure was rigged to favor Joe Biden.

No, the real threat are people like Matthew Graves and Amit Mehta—arrogant, unaccountable apparatchiks of a bloodthirsty regime hellbent on crushing political dissent in America. Wrongthink punished, federal law bastardized, evidence manufactured from harmless group chats, presumption of innocence flipped on its head, due process denied, the Bill of Rights buried under a mountain of political revenge.

The only “fabric” that concerns Mehta is the parchment of his fancy resume as he burnishes his judicial credentials to earn a big promotion from Joe Biden, or the next Democratic president, sometime soon. And just to place a cherry on top of his legendary day, Mehta sentenced Kelly Meggs, leader of the Florida Oath Keepers also convicted of seditious conspiracy, to 12 years in prison late Thursday afternoon.

Graves, for his part, is just getting started. He secured seditious conspiracy guilty verdicts against four members of the Proud Boys last month, creating major legal danger for Trump. “More people were convicted of seditious conspiracy in connection with the siege of the Capitol on January 6, 2021, than any other criminal event since the statute was...