Don Beyer tweeted the following:
"The Republicans just voted to make this problem worse for the American people, at a cost of $114 billion to taxpayers.All to protect wealthy tax cheats from paying their fair share of the tax burden. twitter.com/josephzeballos"Read on Twitter
Here are other recent tweets from Don Beyer:
"House Republicans were all around him when he said this, and no one corrected.To be clear: a govt shutdown and a debt default are both bad for the country and the economy, but they aren't the same.If we breach the debt limit that actually does threaten Social Security checks. twitter.com/MattGertz/stat"Read on Twitter
"The debt limit isn't a credit card, it's authorization to pay the bills Congress already ran up without intentionally causing a job-killing recession.And the very first bill Kevin McCarthy's majority passed adds $114 billion to the deficit. twitter.com/atrupar/status"Read on Twitter
"A suggestion for my Republican colleagues before they pursue this: talk to an economist about what doing this would mean for inflation. Since that is something you at least pretended to care about last year. twitter.com/sarahnferris/s" on Jan. 10Read on Twitter
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