The poor are being held hostage in the debt ceiling standoff
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Here's what must not happen: Our country's least advantaged citizens should not be forced to pay the largest price to prevent an economic catastrophe. Making the poor poorer should never happen; it certainly shouldn't happen on a Democratic president's watch.
That issue is at the heart of this needless and destructive battle.
That's a factual statement, not a partisan complaint.
McCarthy (R-Calif.) is not only refusing to put any of the Trump-era tax cuts for the best-off and corporations on the table; he also wants to make them permanent, adding
A revealing example:
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McCarthy also has to wonder if coming to terms with Biden would prompt a challenge to his leadership from hard-liners. He no doubt hoped that Friday's brief Republican walkout from the talks would persuade his right flank that he's taking a hard line.
Biden's lieutenants and his allies in
But this sorry episode, made possible by an irrational debt ceiling law that ought to have been repealed long ago, should never have happened. The fact that Americans with the lowest incomes are political pawns in this exercise is a moral stain on our country.
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