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From the Speaker's Press Office:

Republican Leaders Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy and the rest of the GOP are willing to jeopardize 6 million jobs and $15 trillion in household wealth in the United States just to score political points. Republicans have made no secret of their callous willingness to endanger the United States economy by blocking efforts to raise the debt ceiling, but a new analysis by Moody's Analytics has shown just how dangerous their partisan obstruction is:

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

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.

And like he has several times this year, Minority Leader McCarthy is refusing to take action against a member of his conference who is calling for violence.

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: