Chief Deputy Whip Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA) praised the House’s passage of the Limit, Save, Grow Act on Wednesday. He also took the opportunity to rip Democrats and blame them for the situation at hand.
Democrats were dissatisfied with the bill. The White House said it would hurt people, and Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) said in a Rules Committee meeting that went into the early hours of Wednesday that Republicans held up the process while calling Democrats the problem.
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“With today’s passage of the Limit, Save, Grow Act, our House Republican majority did what the American people put us in office to do: stop Democrats’ spending spree and get America back on track,” Reschenthaler said in a statement.
“For the past two years, Washington Democrats used their one-party rule to pass massive spending bills, enact costly regulations, and add $6 trillion to the national deficit — all at the expense of everyday Americans,” the statement continued.
Moving on from bashing Democrats, the statement added, “Our plan works for the American people, their children, and their grandchildren.”
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre released a statement after the debt bill passed as well. The statement said the bill would hurt everyday people and seemed to signal Biden’s intent to veto it if it reached his desk — the bill is not expected to make it through the Senate.
“House Republicans have passed a bill that cuts veterans’ health care, education, Meals on Wheels, and public safety, takes away health care from millions of Americans, and sends manufacturing jobs overseas while they fight to extend the Trump tax cuts for the wealthiest and profitable corporations,” the White House statement read.
“President Biden will never force middle class and working families to bear the burden of tax cuts for the wealthiest, as this bill does. The President has made clear this bill has no chance of becoming law,” it added.
Other Democrats were heated before the day’s proceedings began. McGovern, in a House Rules Committee hearing on the bill that he said lasted from 4 p.m. Tuesday until around 2 a.m. Wednesday, said Republicans had held up the process by negotiating with each other, not with House Democrats.
I just moved to adjourn the Rules Committee.
The GOP adopted, without a vote, a huge update to their debt ceiling bill (to buy off MAGA extremists) that they drafted behind closed doors & introduced while most people were asleep.
It should not happen in the dead of night. pic.twitter.com/CWpeklx7yS
— Rep. Jim McGovern (@RepMcGovern) April 26, 2023
“We have been waiting for hours and hours while Republicans negotiate amongst themselves. We heard all day that Democrats are the problem, and yet, we are here at nearly 2 a.m. in the morning, not because Republicans were negotiating with Democrats but because Republicans were negotiating with themselves,” McGovern said.
He went on to imply that Republicans had made closed-door changes to the bill after they said they wouldn’t. McGovern then blamed Republicans for putting the House in a tense position on the bill.
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McGovern said new changes to the bill were more devastating and meaner than previous versions.
“Your problem with this bill was it didn’t screw people fast enough,” he said, referring to provisions that he said would kick people off of their healthcare.
