Conservative analysts gave House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) “Commitment to America”—a legislative agenda if Republicans gain control of the House in the November midterms—a mixed reception based, in part, on the lack of specifics to get the United States’ economic woes under control.
McCarthy officially unveiled the agenda in a speech at Monongahela, Pennsylvania, on Sept. 23. The plan laid out general policy recommendations in four key areas: a strong economy, safe communities, more individual freedom, and more accountable government.
The country is facing historically-high inflation, a slowing economy, demographic problems such as an aging workforce, and a ballooning budget deficit to go along with an unprecedented national debt that could burst into an economic crisis at any moment, said some experts, who believed McCarthy should do more to recognize that….