Chris Wallace Grills Sen. Roy Blunt: 'Haven't You Lost Your Credibility' on the Debt?

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Source: The Daily Beast

Fox News anchor Chris Wallace cornered Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO) over renewed complaints from Republicans about the rising national debt in the wake of the Biden administration’s proposed spending bills, asking Blunt if the GOP has lost any “credibility on these issues.”

With the White House pushing forward a $2.3 trillion infrastructure spending proposal that President Joe Biden has said will largely be paid for with corporate tax hikes, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) grumbled about the price tag while calling it a “Trojan horse.”

McConnell also said “it’s not likely” that he’ll support the bill, adding that it’s “going to have massive tax increases and trillions more added to the national debt.”

Noting that some of Blunt’s Republican colleagues are complaining that the bill will “explode” the national debt and deficits, Wallace aired some graphics that showed how fast the debt rose during the Trump administration.

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They lost their credibility long before that.

[PoliWrangler]

1. Can't think of anything where they haven't lost credibility at this point.

Those ships have sailed.

[maxsolomon]

6. Can't think of any issue where they ever HAD credibility.

The party of pettifogging charlatans my entire adult life.

[BeyondGeography]

2. And Trump was a piker compared with Reagan

But the so-called fiscal conservatives have been getting away with their bullshit ever since George HW Bush got spanked for calling trickle-down “voodoo economics.”

[SWBTATTReg]

3. The republican hypocrites speak out w/ forked tongues. Where was this 'Oh, it'll explode the debt'

when they were voting on the massive tax bill give-away of 2017, of which 83% of the benefits went to you know who...

Hypocrites and I'm glad Wallace caught scumbag Blunt (MO, my so called senator, yikes) on this accurate point.

[ProfessorGAC]

4. On Top Of That...

...reversing the tax rates on the very rich & corporations requires new legislation. There's no sunset provision.
The benefits seen by middle class folks automatically expire.
So, the other 17% have the clock ticking on those rates.

[SWBTATTReg]

5. I did not know this but I am not surprised.

[DonViejo]

7. Locking...

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