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Partisan dispute over job gains, inflation and House budget resolution's effects on workers
Summary
Committee members used the March 12 hearing to argue competing views of recent job gains and to debate whether a House budget blueprint that includes large tax cuts should be funded by steep cuts to Medicaid, SNAP and other programs that support working families.
Committee members used the hearing to stake out competing narratives about recent job gains, inflation and the House Republican budget blueprint.
Ranking Member Bobby Scott and other Democrats highlighted labor market gains under the prior administration, citing Bureau of Labor Statistics figures that "the economy created 16,200,000 jobs," and noting low unemployment rates that had persisted for months. Scott and witnesses such as Dr. Heidi Scheerholz argued that the budget resolution under consideration in the House — which ranking Democrats said directs the…
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