Senator Murray Slams Republican Hostage Taking as Credit Rating Agencies Warns of Credit Rating Downgrade

Statement

"Extreme Republicans have not been coy about what they are putting the country through--with everyone from Donald Trump to House Republican leaders saying the quiet part out loud: they are holding the U.S. economy hostage to extract funding cuts and other partisan concessions. We are at the brink of default and economic catastrophe for one reason and one reason only: House Republicans playing with fire and refusing to meet their basic constitutional obligation to pay our bills--just like Congress did three times on a bipartisan basis under President Trump.

And now, the AAA credit rating of the United States is at serious risk of being downgraded--we've seen this movie before in 2011, and this entire spectacle is self-inflicted by House Republicans. Every American should be furious at the political games House Republicans are playing with their livelihoods and our entire economy."

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