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An ‘Avoidable Crisis’: GOP Leaders, Business Groups and Top Economists Demand Republicans Stop Playing Games With Debt Ceiling
September 22, 2021

From the Speaker's Press Office:

One of President George W. Bush's Treasury Secretaries compared lawmakers who refused to raise the debt ceiling to "terrorists." Former Speaker John Boehner once said holding the debt ceiling hostage is "insanity."

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Moody’s Chief Economist to Republicans: Raising Debt Ceiling Must Be Bipartisan
September 22, 2021
Moody’s Analytics Chief Economist Mark Zandi has joined the growing number of economists, Republican officials, and business leaders calling on Republicans to stop playing politics with the deficit.
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House Republicans Know That Voting NO on Debt Ceiling Is a Vote to Stop Paying Our Troops & Stop Social Security & Medicare Payments
September 21, 2021
Whatever Minority Leader McCarthy and Congressional Republicans say today, if they vote against raising the debt ceiling they know that it is a vote to let soldiers go unpaid and seniors go hungry.
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Moody's Analytics: Republicans ‘Playing a Dangerous Game With the Debt Limit’
September 21, 2021

From the Speaker's Press Office:

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New Poll: Overwhelming Majority of Americans Support Build Back Better Act
September 21, 2021
An overwhelming majority of Americans, independents, and even four-in-ten Republicans back President Biden and House Democrats’ plan to cut taxes for the middle class, lower costs for working families, create more jobs, and sustain economic growth for years to come. 
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House Republicans Threaten Revolt To Prolong The Pandemic
September 10, 2021
This week, in response to overwhelmingly popular vaccine mandates that will save lives and keep our schools open, House Republicans encouraged “a full on revolt” and promoted anti-vax disinformation.
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Washington Post Editorial Board: Kevin McCarthy's Downward Spiral
September 4, 2021

The Washington Post Editorial Board has joined the growing chorus of Americans calling out Minority Leader McCarthy for 'valorizing a deadly attack on the nation's seat of government.'

Read key points from the Washington Post's Editorial Board's piece on McCarthy's 'pitiful path':

Washington Post: Opinion: Kevin McCarthy's downward spiral

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McCarthy Silent As Another of His Members Calls For 'Bloodshed'
August 31, 2021

From the Speaker's Press Office

Fewer than eight months after insurrectionists stormed the U.S. Capitol to beat police officers and threaten the lives of Capitol workers, journalists, Members of Congress and Congressional staffers, Republican Representative Madison Cawthorn (NC-11) is calling for another January 6th-style attack.

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House GOP Huddles With Man Who Happily Took Pictures Negotiating With Taliban
August 19, 2021

From the Speaker's Press Office:

As House Republicans hypocritically oppose a withdrawal they demanded prior to last week, they took time on their weekly conference call to huddle with former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, a man who happily took pictures negotiating with the Taliban:

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CNN & POLITICO: House Democrats’ Child Tax Credit is Already Cutting Child Hunger and Economic Hardship
August 13, 2021
The second round of Child Tax Credit payments hit bank accounts today – and the data from the first round shows that President Biden and Congressional Democrats’ middle class tax cut is already having a ‘huge’ impact on child hunger and economic hardship for working families.