WASHINGTON, DC—Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement on the House government funding vote:
“For 43 days, Republicans have held the people’s government hostage instead of working with us to bring down costs for the people. Because of their cruelty, families have been needlessly forced to worry about their next meal or work without pay.
“The pain people are feeling under failed Republican leadership is real, and it can be addressed by a government that makes lives better and easier. But Republicans have given no credence to this, instead offering only higher prices, less health care, longer mortgages, and fewer opportunities.
“Trump and Republicans have made their priorities clear: they’ll raise costs for everyone else so long as it means another tax giveaway for billionaires, $40 billion bailouts for their buddy in Argentina, and millions funneled to their own pockets.
“That agenda doesn’t earn my vote.”
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