Summarizing the House GOP's Limit, Save, Grow Act, SSWorks said, 'The RepublicanDefaultDisaster plan: Crash the economy unless Democrats agree to MASSIVE CUTS to programs seniors, people with disabilities, and working families rely on to survive.'
Liz Zelnick, director of the Economic Security and Corporate Power program at Accountable.US, pointed out that amid mounting fears of a default in recent months,
trillions of dollars in new deficit-exploding tax breaks for profiteering corporations and their billionaire donors," she stressed. "Not a single House Republican has said big corporations should contribute a dime more toward their supposed debt 'concerns.
Top Democrats also called out McCarthy, with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer noting in a floor speech Wednesday that"months and months after he proposed making deep cuts as a condition, as brinkmanship, as hostage-taking, to just simply make sure that we avoid default—even now he is still short of the support he needs to pass a debt ceiling bill, because the chasm is too big between moderates and the hard-right extremists who are glad to see the economy taken hostage in exchange for...
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