The 21st Century Cures Act – Mick Mulvaney
Here is Mick Mulvaney’s take on his NO vote for this bill.
Earlier today the GOP-controlled House — along with almost every single Democrat — approved the 21st Century Cures bill. Around 70 Republicans voted against it, including myself.
I had no problem with much of what the bill did, which primarily dealt with medical research. Those of you who follow this page know that one of the places I actually support government funding for medical research is so-called “orphan diseases,” which are ailments that simply not enough people have to provide the financial incentive for the private market to invest in research for cures.
Put another way: I would have voted for the bill…if it had been paid for. But it wasn’t.
In fact, the bill created a new “mandatory spending” program. You may be familiar with mandatory spending: it includes things like Medicare and Social Security. Except this new program doesn’t even have a regular funding source, such as the payroll taxes that fund those other programs. We claim that we “pay for” this bill by, among other things, selling off oil in the national strategic reserve. But even the best case scenario is that it takes us 10 years to pay for what we will spend in the next five. And the most likely scenario– we don’t worry about paying for the spending after the first five years at all.
Why did we do it that way? Because if it had been ordinary (AKA: discretionary) spending, then it would have been subject to the Budget Control Act, and we would have been forced to find real spending reduction in other programs for this one to move forward. A lot of Republicans — and most Democrats — didn’t want to do that.
The bill also, by the way, violates the GOP-passed Budget. But again, not that many Republicans cared. Makes me wonder why we even have a budget (and I am sure has a lot of Republicans wondering why they should vote for the next one…but more on that later.)
So, if someone wants to ask right now about what the difference is between the GOP and the Democrats in Washington, I don’t have a very good response. As I have said many, many times here: be careful about wanting more bipartisanship in Washington, because the one thing both parties can agree on is spending money we don’t have. Personally, I don’t’ think we can afford much more bipartisanship.
And for those of you who will inevitably (and correctly) ask me what I am going to do about it, all I can do is point out that only 70 Republicans voted against this. That is probably a high-water mark for fiscal conservatism. And that is a reality I have a hard time accepting: fiscal conservatives are in the minority in my party. We haven’t figured out a way, yet, for 30 or 50 or 70 people to change a party that has 245+ members.
But that doesn’t mean we won’t keep trying.
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