Murray on McCarthy Debt Ceiling Vote: Dead on Arrival Legislation is "A Disaster for Everyone"

"House Republicans just voted to threaten economic catastrophe and hold the full faith and credit of the U.S. hostage so they can cut families off from support they rely on and surrender our economic competitiveness to China. Let's be clear about what this means: Republicans are refusing to pay our nation's bills unless they can take a chainsaw to our economy with draconian cuts that will kill nearly eight hundred thousand jobs, hurt small businesses and working families, shrink our economy, and send us careening into a recession--as a new analysis from top nonpartisan economists makes clear.

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If you think this won't affect you--you're wrong. This bill is a disaster for everyone. The MAGA Republican bill will slash vital funding that keeps planes in the sky and trains on the rails, keeps our food and drugs safe, and supply chains secure. It will pull cops off our streets and drive a wrecking ball through our border security, making it easier for deadly fentanyl to flood our streets.

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And if that weren't bad enough, House Republicans passed spending caps to lock in even more devastating cuts for the next decade. That's ten years of China and our adversaries investing in their economies, growing stronger, and gaining ground while House Republicans tie our hands and force us to fall farther and farther behind. A lost decade for America--that is what MAGA Republicans just voted for.

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What House Republicans just voted for is a deeply unserious and yet deeply dangerous proposal that caters to the whims of extremists like Marjorie Taylor Greene. Here in the Senate, we're hard at work on bipartisan spending bills to move our country forward--not back. That's what we should all be focused on right now."

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