Congressmen Tony Gonzales (R, D23) and Henry Cuellar (D, D28) speech Capitol Hill developments

This week has been a whirlwind connected Capitol Hill. There person been discussions astir everything from the indebtedness ceiling, to the spending bill, to the infrastructure bill. So what precisely does that mean for america present successful San Antonio?

Congressman Tony Gonzales (R, District 23) and Congressman Henry Cuellar (D, District 28) joined Leading SA on Sunday to interruption it each down.

“The debt ceiling is fundamentally the maximum magnitude of wealth the United States tin have. You tin get utilizing bonds and the information and defaulting connected immoderate loan. Will it interaction each of us? Certainly volition interaction the banal market. Certainly volition interaction our status savings and things of that nature. So it’s important that successful Washington, we guarantee that the indebtedness ceiling does not default,” Congressman Tony Gonzales said.

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Right present it looks similar determination is simply a impermanent fix, but the concern volition beryllium readdressed successful December.

“I privation we would person not kicked it down the roadworthy due to the fact that erstwhile we speech astir the indebtedness ceiling, it’s to rise it truthful we tin spell up and get the wealth for what’s been spent. For example, President Trump added 7 trillion dollars to the indebtedness doing this for years. So we person to wage that indebtedness and different debts person been accumulated by some Democrats and Republicans,” Congressman Henry Cuellar said.

There are a batch of bills connected the array connected Capitol Hill, but if the indebtedness ceiling is not figured out, it would beryllium problematic for radical astir the state and present successful San Antonio.

“The world is up successful Washington. Democrats power everything, they power the House, they power the Senate and the White House. So erstwhile you’re the enactment successful power, it is your occupation to guarantee that the debt, the indebtedness ceiling and different authorities functions bash not get defaulted. They could. They could walk this without having a Republican vote, similar galore things that they tin walk without having a Republican vote,” Congressman Tony Gonzales said.

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“We some recognize that we person to code that. Three 100 and seventy-eight cardinal dollars that we wage each twelvemonth connected interest, the imagined involvement that we’re paying close now, $378 cardinal a year. We got to bash thing astir this debt,” Congressman Cuellar said.

The past happening either lawmaker wants to spot is simply a default. Another constituent of contention is the projected $3.5 trillion dollar spending bill.

“Everybody talks astir $3.5 trillion. I’ll archer you, Max and Sarah, I was not successful the country erstwhile idiosyncratic came up with $3.5 trillion. Some radical got that fig and they privation to capable it up with taxes and they privation to capable it up with spending. That’s not the mode we bash a budget. We look astatine what are the necessities, truthful we request to look astatine what tin we afford,” Congressman Cuellar said.

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Max Massey is the GMSA play anchor and a wide assignments reporter. Max has been unrecorded astatine immoderate of the biggest nationalist stories retired of Texas successful caller years, including the Sutherland Springs shooting, Hurricane Harvey and the manhunt for the Austin bomber. Outside of work, Max follows authorities and sports, particularly Penn State, his alma mater.