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NBC NEWS: Vulnerable House Republicans Are “FACING BLOWBACK” After Voting to Explode The National Deficit

“Republicans who spent years railing about the national debt, including those in tough re-election races, are facing blowback” for their recent votes
Vulnerable House Republicans are being exposed as complete and utter frauds… this time for their hypocrisy on the ballooning national deficit. 

New reporting from NBC News highlights how “Republicans who spent years railing about the national debt, including those in tough re-election races, are facing blowback over their votes” for the Big, Ugly Law, which nonpartisan experts say will “hike deficits by more than $4 trillion over the next decade.”
DCCC Spokesperson Eli Cousin:
“Vulnerable House Republicans are massive hypocrites who say one thing but then do another. The latest example: after pretending to be so-called ‘fiscal conservatives,’ House Republicans voted to explode our national deficit to the tune of $4 trillion so they could fund more tax cuts for billionaires. The DCCC will remind voters that Republicans are responsible for not only ripping health care away from millions of Americans, but also for sticking the next generation with the bill.”

NBC News: Republicans who came to Congress to fight the deficit face attacks for raising it under Trump

  • Republican Rep. Scott Perry, a past chairman of the hard-right House Freedom Caucus, has spent his 12-year career in Congress railing about the ballooning national debt and deficits — what he’s bemoaned as the “bankrupting of America.”
  • But after voting for President Donald Trump’s “big beautiful bill,” which is estimated to hike deficits by more than $4 trillion over the next decade, Perry finds himself playing defense on the issue of the skyrocketing national debt.
  • “If you explain it the right way, [Trump’s law] actually is intended to reduce the deficit over time,” Rep. Young Kim, who has frequently spoken out about the national debt, told NBC News.
  • Kim, a vulnerable Republican representing California’s Orange County, has faced criticism from one in a large field of Democrats hoping to unseat her.
  • Like many in his party […], he [Perry] warned about rising deficits and debt in the wake of Democrats’ passage of the Affordable Care Act. He later served for one term as chairman of the Freedom Caucus, created to pull the GOP conference further to the right, especially on spending matters.
  • “It’s complete hypocrisy,” said fellow Pennsylvania Rep. Brendan Boyle, the top Democrat on the Budget Committee. “Besides this bill being the greatest loss of health care in American history, it’s also the single greatest increase to our national debt in American history. Every single Republican, with the exception of two, voted completely contrary to their principles and voted for what is really a debt bomb.”
  • Other endangered swing-district Republicans are facing similar attacks.
  • [David] Schweikert rode the 2010 Tea Party wave to Washington and was one of the founding members of the Freedom Caucus, but left the group in 2023. The wonky chairman of the bicameral Joint Economic Committee, Schweikert has given countless floor speeches and interviews on the risk of deficits and the national debt, accompanied by floor charts and graphs.
  • In an interview, Schweikert said the CBO score showing the Trump law will add trillions to the deficit “absolutely gives me heartburn.”

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