Murray on McCarthy Debt Ceiling Proposal to MSNBC: "This is crazy… The Answer is No"

"Every family pays their bills. Every business pays their bills. Republicans are saying: We're not going to pay our bills. We're going to let our country default and bring chaos to this country if you do not cut dramatically and undermine our ability to make the investments that we need to in our economy, in jobs, in our veterans' housing, in school lunches for kids--in so many things that our country relies on to keep our economy moving.

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That is crazy. This is asking us: do you want chaos, or do you want chaos? And the answer is no. And it doesn't have to be this way.

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Holding us hostage to this debt ceiling crisis and the ability to make sure our economy doesn't crash is not how you negotiate. It has never worked.

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Well, we do not want our country to default. That will hurt everyone--absolutely everyone--in unimaginable ways, and our economy and the full faith and credit of this country for a long time to come. We have to do our job and make sure that doesn't happen. Let's get that done, we've done it before, we did it three times under Trump in a bipartisan way--no reason that we can't do that.

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Look, the House Republican counteroffer right now is basically to cut 800,000 jobs, to stop us from building our manufacturing base, to cut out school lunches, and as I said, veterans' services and homes. That's not what our country wants."

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