[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 89 (Thursday, May 25, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H2617]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                          DEBT CEILING CRISIS

  (Ms. TLAIB asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. TLAIB. Mr. Speaker, where are our Republican colleagues? They are 
in charge in this Chamber. They manufactured this crisis. If any of my 
neighbors left work before noon, they would be fired.
  The country is on a deadline, and the Republicans that are in charge 
in this Chamber just simply left. The real mind-boggling part is that 
these same MAGA Republicans that manufactured this crisis voted not 
once, not twice, but three times under the previously forever-impeached 
President with no issues.
  Republicans love to talk about fiscal this, spending that, but not 
when it comes to tax cuts to mega-billionaires or when it comes to 
funding bombs and wars that our country and our world doesn't need.
  They are so completely disconnected with the American people and what 
the lives of the American people are like. A delay in Social Security 
checks would hurt our seniors. Creating instability of whether or not 
they are going to have healthcare coverage next week is just simply 
wrong.
  A default on our debt for the first time in our history would be 
devastating for the American people, and they just left.

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