Re: Sign the petition: House Republicans are playing with fire on the debt limit

Friend, House Republicans have [passed devastating budget cuts]( as a condition for extending the debt limit by only one year. This is reckless and unprecedented blackmail that puts our whole economy in jeopardy for their extreme ideological game. [Sign the petition: House Republicans are playing with fire on the debt limit.]( [Sign the petition]( The $4.5 trillion in cuts [would make]( children poorer, veterans sicker, families hungrier and housing more expensive. And it could very likely plunge us into a [deep recession](. But the story here is not about how Speaker Kevin McCarthy is controlled by Marjorie Taylor Greene and other MAGA extremists. The bill passed [with 217 votes]( (a majority of the House), and all of the so-called "moderate" House Republicans voted for this atrocious blackmail. The following 18 House Republicans voted for this bill, despite representing districts whose constituents voted for Joe Biden. They must be held accountable for enabling its passage: David Schweikert (AZ-01), Juan Ciscomani (AZ-06), John Duarte (CA-13), David Valadao (CA-22), Mike Garcia (CA-27), Young Kim (CA-40), Michelle Steel (CA-45), Don Bacon (NE-02), Tom Kean Jr. (NJ-07), Nick LaLota (NY-01), George Santos (NY-03), Anthony D'Esposito (NY-04), Mike Lawler (NY-17), Marc Molinaro (NY-19), Brandon Williams (NY-22), Lori Chavez-DeRemer (OR-05), Brian Fitzpatrick (PA-01), and Jen Kiggans (VA-02.) [Sign the petition: House Republicans are playing with fire on the debt limit.]( [Sign the petition]( Keep fighting, Paul Hogarth, Daily Kos P.S. Below is an email we sent you that provides more context about the vote. --------------------------------------------------------------- Friend, [sign the petition: House Republicans are playing with fire on the debt limit](. [Sign the petition]( House Republicans [just passed]( a debt limit bill to impose [$4.5 trillion in cuts]( [that would make]( children poorer, veterans sicker, families hungrier and housing more expensive. The bill would repeal measures that [tackle the climate crisis](, go after [wealthy tax cheats]( and [cancel student debt](. Further, it could [cause a recession]( by cutting 2.6 million American jobs. Republicans are doing this only because Joe Biden is president. Congress voted to extend the debt limit [three times]( during the Trump Era with no conditions or negotiations. It has been passed [78 times since 1960](, in both Republican and Democratic administrations. [Sign the petition: House Republicans—including the so-called "moderates"—are playing with fire, and deserve all the blame that happens next.]( [Sign the petition]( The debt limit is not about spending priorities or adding more debt: it's about making sure the U.S. Treasury has the funds to pay our existing obligations, and avert a financial catastrophe if we default. Raising the debt limit is not the time nor the place to negotiate over the budget. We all know Kevin McCarthy [owes his Speakership]( to MAGA extremists who fully support these sickening budget cuts. However, these nihilists would not have so much power if the so-called [moderate Republicans]( in the House had not [voted along for this bill](. Even the 18 House Republicans who [represent districts]( that voted for Joe Biden in the last presidential election signed off on Kevin McCarthy's debt limit blackmail. And now, we must hold them accountable for draconian budget cuts as a condition for causing a fiscal default. [Sign the petition: House Republicans are playing with fire on the debt limit, and must be held accountable.]( [Sign the petition]( Keep fighting, Paul Hogarth, Daily Kos P.S. The 18 House Republicans who voted "yes" and represent districts that voted for Joe Biden are: Anthony D'Esposito (NY-04), David Valadao (CA-22), Mike Garcia (CA-27), Mike Lawler (NY-17), John Duarte (CA-13), George Santos (NY-03), Lori Chavez-DeRemer (OR-05), Brandon Williams (NY-22), Don Bacon (NE-02), Michelle Steel (CA-45), Brian Fitzpatrick (PA-01), Marc Molinaro (NY-19), Tom Kean Jr. (NJ-07), Jen Kiggans (VA-02), David Schweikert (AZ-01), Young Kim (CA-40), Nick LaLota (NY-01) and Juan Ciscomani (AZ-06) Daily Kos needs you now more than ever We are falling behind our projections for two of our three major revenue streams: advertising and list building. This means that at this moment, we need to rely more and more on donations from the Daily Kos community to make ends meet. Can you chip in $5 right now to help Daily Kos keep fighting? [Donate $5]( If you wish to donate by mail instead, please send a check to Daily Kos, PO Box 70036, Oakland, CA, 94612. Contributions to Daily Kos are not tax deductible. Sent via [ActionNetwork.org](. To update your email address, change your name or address, or to stop receiving emails from Daily Kos, please [click here](.