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On the recordOctober 4, 2021
What McConnell is trying to do here is he wants us to have to take votes to raise the debt limit by a specific amount because he thinks that if we do that, that it`s going to distract America from the reality that under Donald Trump, the debt went up by almost $8 trillion.
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Tina Smith
Democratic · Minnesota
Source
msnbc.com

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Senator Smith accuses McConnell of using the debt ceiling as a distraction from the debt increase during Trump's presidency.

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