Dem Rep. Slotkin: IRS Funding Cut Is Going to Increase the Deficit

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SLOTKIN: “I mean, I voted 'no' for a couple reasons. One, I think I went back in history, in time, and I was trying to find a situation where emergency aid for an ally or a partner that came about from a crisis was conditioned on cuts to American domestic spending. I could not find that. I think this was an unprecedented suggestion by a very new speaker. Of course, their goal, their stated goal was to cut the deficit. It took about a hot minute to figure out that it wasn’t going to cut the deficit. In fact, it was going to increase the deficit. So, you know, I just — it was a political play there. Secondly, there was no aid for Gaza in that bill. You know, we’re all watching our screens. Whatever you think of what’s going on, there are situations right now in Gaza that are very dire on food, on water, on medicine, so I couldn’t support that. And then obviously, the Senate bill is bipartisan. We were hoping that with everything going on in the Middle East right now, we could have a strong bipartisan bill that would come over, and we’d get, you know — we’re still going to look at it, but what happened yesterday was just pure politics from a very new speaker."