Janice Schakowsky: “Macroeconomics, a nonpartisan forecasting firm, said that those cuts would throw about 15 million more people out of…”

“Macroeconomics, a nonpartisan forecasting firm, said that those cuts would throw about 15 million more people out of work, double the unemployment rate from 9 percent to about 18 percent, and cause the economy to shrink by about 17 percent instead of growing at an expected 17 percent. This amendment will only make the economy worse. Vote ``no.''”