Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) unloaded on the Republican Budget Committee Chairman on Monday over the climbing debt under President Donald Trump’s spending policies.
The clash came at a House Rules Committee hearing, where McGovern grilled Rep. Jodey Arrington (R-TX) over a budget resolution that Democrats say adds $4.7 trillion to the national debt with no offsets.
“I love you Republicans. You don’t take responsibility for anything,” McGovern said. “You control the House, you control the Senate, you control the White House, I think you control the Supreme Court, and nothing is your responsibility.”
In 2024, Arrington had told the same committee that “not paying for our spending is not only irresponsible, it is irrational.”
McGovern asked Arrington to confirm that the national debt had risen $3.3 trillion since Trump took office — from $36.2 trillion to $39.5 trillion. Arrington insisted that the statistic was “misleading,” before getting pushback from ep. Morgan McGarvey (D-KY),
“The debt of this country from George Washington through Bill Clinton was about $5.7 trillion,” McGarvey noted. “The debt from George W. Bush and Donald Trump alone is nearly double that.”
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