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On the recordMay 3, 2023
House Republicans have armed the default hand grenade, and pulled the pin, and have it in their hands, threatening to blow it up with all of the consequences that each of you have forecast, and the question is for whom?
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Whitehouse accuses House Republicans of risking default with serious repercussions.

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