Use the debt ceiling fight to defund Biden's "embedding equity" decrees

With a thin margin in the House, Republicans do not have the political heft to use the debt-limit battle to force sea-changes in the budget. Sadly, moreover, even if the heft were there, the political will is not, because a groundswell of Republicans has become as irresponsible as Democrats in pretending we can afford to make so-called entitlements untouchable.

So we need to identify winnable, unifying fights that put Democrats on their backfoot and induce the woke Left to flash its fangs for all the country to see. Anti-Woke is a 2-to-1 position, and the numbers will swing more to our favor as people come to grasp that equity is the antithesis of equality. As I argued over the weekend (here and here), border security, too, is a one-sided political issue.

Ergo: Use the debt ceiling fight to defund Biden’s equity decree and lawless parole for illegal aliens.

[It’s worth fighting, no doubt, but choosing the debt ceiling as the battleground makes the Republican case on debt look much more cynical. Their approach now is that this is a necessary fight to limit debt, not an excuse to push back against Joe Biden’s “equity” social policies. They should stick to substantial budget cuts in this fight to keep the focus on the debt crisis and fight the equity decrees in court and in the election to come. — Ed]