Danielle, Once in a while, Republican politicians put all their cards on the table. That's exactly what Kevin McCarthy did on Monday. As he celebrated 100 days since (eventually) getting elected House Speaker, he went to the New York Stock Exchange, and he basically told everyone in America to be afraid — to be very afraid. Why? Because he's willing to crash the economy. He's demanding job-destroying budget cuts in exchange for avoiding a job-destroying default on the national debt. In other words: Heads he wins, tails the working people of America lose. I'm holding firm for a clean bill to prevent a debt ceiling crisis, just like Kevin McCarthy and Republicans voted to raise the debt ceiling repeatedly under Donald Trump. Let's link arms on this. Add your name if you agree, Danielle: Congress must pass a clean bill to avoid a national default without negotiating ANY cuts to Social Security, Medicare, or other programs that serve the American people. We'll keep fighting for a government that works for everyone — not just the rich and powerful — while Kevin McCarthy keeps spreading the out-of-touch Republican gospel to Wall Street bankers. You see, in his speech, he was laying out a dangerous vision, where working people pay to keep our country running while corporations pay as little as possible in taxes. Where Republicans slash funding that supports working families while making the IRS government look the other way as the ultra-rich cheat on their taxes. Where hundreds of thousands, and potentially millions, of Americans lose their jobs — the jobs they're counting on to make rent, to pay the mortgage, to put food on the table — while CEOs laugh all the way to the bank. And if he doesn't get his way on making that vision a reality, he's willing to flush the global economy down the toilet by triggering the first-ever default on our debt — by not paying the tab he and Donald Trump ran up with massive tax breaks for billionaires and giant corporations. Kevin McCarthy's plan is a non-starter, and I'll keep working to make sure Democrats don't give an inch. But now is the moment for you to raise your voice, too. To say you oppose a job-destroying default AND that you oppose job-destroying budget cuts. Add your name if you're in this fight, and let's win it side by side. Thanks for being a part of this, Elizabeth | 
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