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Are Republicans willing to cost the U.S. economy up to 6 million jobs?

As Congressional Republicans continue to risk financial crisis by refusing to take responsibility and ensure America pays its bills on time by working with Democrats to address the debt limit, the writing is on the wall: their partisan games could risk economic calamity and harm millions of Americans as they recover from the financial effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Wash Post Editorial: The full faith and credit of the United States is not a political plaything.

ICYMI, the Washington Post released a scathing Editorial about Congressional Republicans’ continued refusal to take action to suspend the debt limit, despite Democrats joining them for bipartisan votes to protect America’s full faith and credit and prevent global financial crises

New Poll Alert: Americans overwhelmingly support the Build Back Better Agenda

From the Majority Leader Press Shop:

McConnell threatens to hold the American economy hostage.

Wanted to be sure you saw this article in the Washington Post over the weekend about Mitch McConnell’s hypocrisy and refusal to work with Democrats to address the debt limit and ensure t

Have you seen these polls?

The latest polling numbers show that a bipartisan majority of Americans continue to support the bipartisan infrastructure bill and the Build Back Better Act, all part of President Biden’s Build Back Better agenda.

President Biden's economic agenda continues to deliver for Americans.

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, we wanted to share more data that shows America’s economy is back under President Biden and Congressional Democrats.

Moody's: Infrastructure = economic growth

Ahead of today’s expected cloture vote, wanted to be sure you saw the latest report from Moody’s chief economist, Mark Zandi, who joins other economic experts in predicting that the bipartisan infrastr

Stop us if you've heard this one before...

In one of the most predictable moments of hypocrisy, Majority Leader McConnell is taking a well-traveled road for Republicans – creating debt and then refusing to deal with it. This latest example comes as McConnell told Punchbowl News, “I can’t imagine there will be a single Republican voting to raise the debt ceiling.” Said another way:

Isn't it ironic?

While today’s focus is rightly on the Supreme Court’s ruling on Arizona’s restrictive voting laws, there’s another Arizona story we want to make sure you didn’t miss. This one has to do with the disastrous Arizona GOP-sponsored vote audit.

Americans are feeling optimistic about President Biden's economic agenda.

ICYMI, the Consumer Confidence Index, which measures consumers’ assessments of the economy, is at its highest level since March 2020.

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