Governor Ron DeSantis’s “Never Back Down PAC” spokesman Steve Cortes has split with the newly minted presidential candidate over the McCarthy-Biden debt deal looming over Congress.
DeSantis tweeted on Sunday: “Our country is careening toward bankruptcy, and after this debt ceiling ‘deal’ it will still be careening toward bankruptcy. The deal green lights $4 trillion in new debt over the next year and a half, locks in inflated levels of spending from COVID, and keeps 98% of the Biden IRS expansion.”
His view is widely shared, including by this website. But his “National Spokesman” Steve Cortes disagrees, in a strange moment of internal division for the DeSantis team, and one that may deepen the turmoil in Tallahassee.
Cortes wrote: “Conservatives should welcome the deal that the GOP House negotiated against an obstinate Biden Administration… this agreement represents a worthy deal that should receive the support of patriotic populists.”
Cortes does accept there is more to be done, and did not sign the op-ed in his capacity as Never Back Down spokesman. The news comes as former Cruz strategist Jeff Roe removed long time DeSantis advisor Phil Cox from the campaign, after a horrific week for the campaign.
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