Congressman Gonzalez Statement on Bipartisan Agreement to Raise Debt Ceiling
June 02, 2023
June 02, 2023
WASHINGTON, June 2 -- Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, D-Texas, issued the following news release statement on June 1, 2023:
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"Speaker McCarthy and House Republicans played games with Americans' livelihoods and jeopardized the full faith and credit of our country. By toying with default, Republicans risked more than $12 billion in Veteran benefits, $25 billion in Social Security benefits, and $47 billion for Medicare providers. Defaulting would have risked up to eight m . . .
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"Speaker McCarthy and House Republicans played games with Americans' livelihoods and jeopardized the full faith and credit of our country. By toying with default, Republicans risked more than $12 billion in Veteran benefits, $25 billion in Social Security benefits, and $47 billion for Medicare providers. Defaulting would have risked up to eight m . . .