Representative Jim Himes (D-CT) said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that President Donald Trump’s big beautiful spending bill failed to address the deficit.
Himes said, “The American people want basically three things out of their federal budget. Number one, at this point in time when Americans, the wealthiest Americans, are doing better than ever before, Americans want the wealthiest of Americans to pay more taxes, and to give tax relief to the middle class and below. Number two, they want us to address the deficit, which is now spiraling out of control to the point where we got a downgrade in one of the U.S. credit ratings. And third, they want a simpler tax code. This bill fails spectacularly on all three counts.”
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