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Majority Whip Tom Emmer joined CNN’s State of the Union to discuss House Republicans’ Limit, Save, Grow Act of 2023 that limits federal spending, saves taxpayers $4.8 trillion over 10 years, and grows the economy without allowing the U.S. to default on our debt. He also debunked the Biden administration’s lie that this bill would cut critical programs for things like food assistance and veterans’ health care.

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Whip Emmer on the next steps for the Limit, Save, Grow Act:

“Well first off, the White House – since this Congress began – has had no ideas whatsoever except jacking up taxes and spending even more money for a country that is in trouble financially. We’ve got to get this right, Dana. And the Schumer Senate, they have no ideas either. It’s just repeated rhetoric. So to say that it’s dead on arrival in the Senate when you’ve got even Joe Manchin suggesting support for this type of an approach, I think that’s not exactly accurate. We’ve got a debt ceiling, a debt issue that’s going to arise, I guess now in July, is what the treasury is saying. If they are refusing to provide any ideas – and I guess I would put it this way, Dana, to answer your question – we’ve passed it. You now have the solution that is good for all of America and Americans. Pass it if you don’t have any ideas. If you don’t like something in it, if you have ideas of your own, our Speaker is more than willing I’m sure to listen to those.”

Whip Emmer on the Biden administration’s lies about spending “cuts”:

“You know, you’ve got a president who was just told by the Washington Post that his claims on the deficit get 22 pinocchios. They’re just not true. And what you just said is just not true either. You should scrutinize what the administration is talking about. What we did was you go back to FY22 baseline budgeting, Dana. That’s just four months ago. That’s just last year. And the budgeting level we’re talking about was passed by Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi. So to suggest that House Republicans are doing something now, when you passed it just last year and this was the numbers you were living under, that just isn’t accurate. What this would do, is this would be transformational. It would put this country on a trajectory where we can start to address our budget deficit. We’re spending $1.29 for every dollar we’re bringing in, Dana. This does not end well unless we start to fix this problem.”

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