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Marin’s Congressional representative, Jared Huffman, announced today (May 31) that he will vote against a debt ceiling deal signed off by President Joe Biden and House Republicans.
He said in a press release that he plans to vote against “H.R. 3746, the legislative agreement to suspend the debt ceiling for 18 months in return for a host of Democratic spending and policy concessions. Specifically, the bill cuts non-defense spending while increasing defense spending; adds unnecessary hurdles for vulnerable Americans to receive vital food and financial assistance; significantly and permanently undermines NEPA, one of our most critical environmental laws; and flouts the opposition of climate activists and environmental justice groups by legislatively greenlighting the Mountain Valley Pipeline, which has a climate impact equivalent to building 26 new coal-fired power plants.”
He called the deal a “one-sided negotiation under threat of default.”
The president and House Republicans praised the deal, but Huffman said the deal is a “major step backward from the climate and environmental justice wins we delivered in the last Congress.”
Huffman’s criticism of the deal was reserved for Republicans only, and not President Joe Biden.
“Finally, once you normalize extreme hostage taking like this, there’s no going back. MAGA Republicans succeeded in holding America hostage under threat of default in order to extract unrelated demands, and they now have a template. Today’s deal is going to pass, but since it consists entirely of odious concessions to Republicans, it should pass with GOP votes. I will not be voting for what I view as a lousy deal and a terrible precedent.”
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