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Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023

Floor Speech

Date: May 31, 2023
Location: Washington, DC

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Ms. PLASKETT. Mr. Speaker, Democrats' leadership has protected our hard-earned and historic economic recovery. That team secured an agreement that prevents Republicans from forcing devastating default and rejects their most extreme cuts in the GOP default on America bill. President Biden's agreement protected Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and veterans' healthcare.

This was a negotiation with individuals whose top priority was cutting food assistance and protecting the wealthy. That was their main priority across the entire negotiation.

Fiscal responsibility? Their only responsibility was to protect their tax cuts for the ultrawealthy that grew the debt by $7 trillion in the first place.

The President successfully insisted that if this agreement was going to include time limits on SNAP, it needed to include meaningful improvements to SNAP.

Republicans protected the wealthy at the feet of the neediest Americans.

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Ms. PLASKETT. Democrats understand the needs of the American people and our most vulnerable Americans, as well as the full faith and credit of the American people.

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