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WASHINGTON – Today, Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) issued the following statement after voting against the Republican Debt Ceiling Plan. 

“This plan - assembled and then changed in the middle of the night - does not represent the kind of good-faith negotiating that Speaker McCarthy claims to desire. Instead, this bill is riddled with concessions to the most extreme elements of the Republican Party, with provisions that would gut critical programs like Meals on Wheels, threaten hundreds of thousands of clean energy jobs, and institute strict and cruel requirements making it more difficult to access food assistance and Medicaid. The only redeeming quality of this proposal is that it is so extreme it stands no chance of passing the Senate. 

“The vote Republicans took today puts us no closer to responsibly paying our bills and avoiding a calamitous and self-inflicted default. As I’ve said many times and will continue to say, this isn’t some pie-in-the-sky policy. This is about people’s retirement and social security. Speaker McCarthy should do the responsible thing and put a clean debt ceiling bill on the floor - which I would vote to pass, just as I did three times under President Trump. What the Speaker and his extreme Republican conference did today is not negotiating - it’s playing political games with the full faith and credit of the United States.”

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