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On the recordMay 4, 2023
MAGA Republican's dangerous bill poses a terrible choice. Default on our financial obligations, causing widespread pain and wrecking our economy, or gut basic federal programs essential to our economic strength causing widespread pain and wrecking our economy.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

Editor's note · Context

Describing the consequences of the Default on America Act.

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