The Heroic, Principled Rep. Thomas Massie
February 26, 2025
House Republicans passed a budget that includes spending cuts and tax cuts. But is also raises the debt ceiling by $4 trillion. Only the heroic, principled Thomas Massie (R-KY) voted against it. Why do Republicans need to raise the debt ceiling unless they plan on a spending orgy like when Trump was president the first time?
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.

