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Lawmaker warns reconciliation bill would add about $100 billion and criticized $5 trillion in cumulative debt growth
Summary
The speaker warned that the reconciliation bill contains "almost a $100,000,000,000 in new deficit spending" and said recent majorities have collectively added about $5 trillion to the national debt over 18 months.
A lawmaker warned that the pending reconciliation measure would add nearly $100 billion in new deficit spending, saying, "We have in this bill almost a $100,000,000,000 in new deficit spending." The speaker placed that figure in the context of what he described as $5 trillion in cumulative debt added over an 18-month period by recent majorities.
Those numerical assertions were presented as points of fiscal criticism in the floor speech; the transcript does not include supporting budget analyses or bill text to confirm the figures. The lawmaker used the numbers to question the governing majority's claims about fiscal responsibility.
