Prevent Debt Default

Floor Speech

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Mr. SCOTT of Virginia. Madam Speaker, I rise today to voice my opposition to the House Republicans adjourning for the holiday while leaving the American people in limbo.

I get tired of being lectured by Republicans about debts and deficits. Twenty-five percent of the entire national debt was accumulated under the 4 years of the Trump administration.

Every Democratic administration since Kennedy has left for their Republican successors a better deficit situation than they inherited, and every Republican administration since Nixon has left for their Democratic successors a worse deficit situation than they inherited-- all without exception.

Speaker McCarthy has presented a false choice: either we default on our debts for the first time in history, or we agree to devastating cuts in education, law enforcement, veterans benefits, food assistance, border security, and healthcare and going into a recession.

House Republicans created this crisis. It is time they ended it by at least five of them signing the discharge petition and agreeing to responsibly pay our Nation's debts.

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