Asa Hutchinson: “I would just suggest to the impassioned gentleman that I, in fact, did not lead the charge, as you have wrongly…”

“I would just suggest to the impassioned gentleman that I, in fact, did not lead the charge, as you have wrongly, inaccurately alleged to cut EITC. In fact, if you check the facts, I was involved in the conference committee. I was involved in working with Senator Nickles. In fact, under the Republican proposal on EITC, with the $500 per child tax credit, as I think you accurately know, not one American would have been worse off. Not one working American would have lost anything in EITC. In fact, they would have been far better off under that proposal. I would like to note for the record that the State of California will face a loss of 63,100 jobs if the minimum wage is increased and up to 500,000 jobs, according to the Congressional Budget Office, will be eliminated nationwide. So I would remind my good friend that this unfunded mandate will cost millions of working families and taxpayers over $13 billion according to the CBO.”