{"id":1047996,"date":"2024-09-10T12:36:30","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T16:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1047996"},"modified":"2024-09-10T12:36:30","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T16:36:30","slug":"five-questions-maga-republicans-on-capitol-hill-should-answer-as-congress-reconvenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/five-questions-maga-republicans-on-capitol-hill-should-answer-as-congress-reconvenes\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Questions MAGA Republicans on Capitol Hill Should Answer As Congress Reconvenes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The MAGA House and Senate GOP have returned for their final round before Election Day, and the American people deserve more than what they saw last time Congress was in session: chaos, infighting, and political gamesmanship designed to serve one man \u2013 Donald Trump \u2014 above the American people. This Congress, MAGA congressional Republicans\u2019 tenure has been defined by what they\u2019ve failed to do: work across the aisle to pass meaningful legislation to benefit the American people, including tanking safeguards for our reproductive freedoms and blocking the toughest, fairest bipartisan border deal in decades at Trump\u2019s behest. Now that Congress is back in session, the American people deserve a straight answer from Trump\u2019s MAGA minions in Congress on these questions: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. As a MAGA member of one of the least productive sessions of Congress in American history, will you finally give up the chaos and focus on passing legislation that would help the American people? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ABC News<\/a>: \u201c118th Congress on track to become one of the least productive in US history\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Axios<\/a>: \u201cThe 118th Congress is on track to be one of the most unproductive in modern history,<\/strong> with just a couple dozen laws on the books at the close of 2023, according to data from data analytics firm Quorum.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Axios<\/a>: \u201cRepublicans livid as chaos threatens to cannibalize House majority\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CBS News<\/a>: \u201cRep. Mike Turner says there is a \u2018chaos caucus\u2019 who want to block any congressional action\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Do you stand by Donald Trump\u2019s demands to kill the bipartisan border deal? Will you continue to block bipartisan legislation in an attempt to boost Donald Trump and Republicans politically if you\u2019re reelected? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Axios<\/a>: \u201cTrump, House Republicans plot to kill border deal\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vox<\/a>: \u201cTrump made this clear when he reportedly urged Republicans in Congress to turn against the bipartisan Senate border security bill scheduled for a vote Wednesday so that he could keep the issue alive through the presidential election.<\/strong> His supporters have largely fallen in line.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNN<\/a>: \u201cTrump, who is hoping to make immigration a key plank of his presidential campaign, has suggested on Truth Social that approving additional resources for the border would make Republicans \u2018look bad.\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rolling Stone<\/a>: \u201cBorder Patrol Supports \u2018Strong\u2019 Immigration Deal. Republicans Don\u2019t Care\u201d<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chuck Schumer<\/a>: \u201cThe bill we are bringing up was designed to solve the problem and Republicans and Democrats labored together in good faith to get that done, and it would\u2019ve gotten done had Donald Trump not said, \u2018I don’t want this done. Blame it on me. I want chaos at the border so I can win reelection.\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump<\/a>: \u201cPlease blame it on me.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump<\/a>: \u201cI think [Republicans] are making a terrible mistake if they vote for the bill.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNN<\/a>: \u201cThe border compromise would represent a dramatic change of immigration law on lines many Republicans have long supported.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. How can you continue to claim you \u201csupport IVF\u201d after you blocked the Right to IVF Act? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Associated Press<\/a>: \u201cSenate Republicans block bill on women\u2019s right to IVF<\/strong> as Democrats make push on reproductive care\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSenate Republicans blocked legislation that would make it a right nationwide for women to access in vitro fertilization and other fertility treatments after Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer forced a vote on the matter Thursday in an effort to drive an election-year contrast on reproductive care.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAll Republicans except Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine voted against advancing the measure, ensuring that it only gained 48 votes \u2014 well short of the 60 votes needed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daily Beast<\/a>: \u201cRepublicans Struggle to Explain Away Their Hypocrisy on IVF\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. How can you continue to claim to be \u201cpro-business\u201d and \u201cpro-family\u201d after you blocked a bipartisan deal to expand the Child Tax Credit? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NBC News<\/strong><\/a>: \u201cSenate Republicans block bill to expand child tax credit\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSenate Republicans blocked a bipartisan bill Thursday on to expand the child tax credit<\/strong> and provide some tax breaks for businesses, all but sinking it for the rest of the year. The vote was 48-44, with the vast majority of GOP senators voting against it.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

5. Will you continue to <\/strong>ignore the will of your constituents<\/strong><\/a> by using your seat in Congress to push Trump and other extremists\u2019 out-of-touch agenda? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

House Majority PAC<\/a>: \u201cRecent HMP battleground polling shows that voters are starting to learn about Project 2025 and are extremely opposed to the Republican plan to raise taxes on the middle class, ban abortion, cut overtime pay, raise the retirement age, slash veterans benefits, and harm American families. <\/strong>In this polling, Project 2025 tops the list of negative statements tested.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities<\/a>: \u201cHouse Republican Agendas and Project 2025 Would Increase Poverty and Hardship, Drive Up the Uninsured Rate, and Disinvest From People, Communities, and the Economy\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOver the last several months, groups of House Republicans and the Heritage Foundation have released policy agendas that, taken together, would create a harsher country with higher poverty and less opportunity, where millions of people would face higher costs for health care, child care, and housing, and millions more would lose health coverage \u2014 all while wealthy households and corporations benefit from an unfair tax code that provides them with outsized tax breaks. These skewed priorities would exacerbate inequities in income, wealth, health, and hardship across lines of race and ethnicity, widening already glaring differences that have their roots in racism and other forms of discrimination.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Press Release, House Appropriations Committee Democrats<\/a>: \u201cMAGA Republicans\u2019 Project 2025 Shapes Funding Bills\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018Like last year, the Republicans\u2019 basket of awful ideas has no chance of becoming law, but their harmful policies are part of MAGA Republicans\u2019 Project 2025 takeover plan that hurts the middle class and favors their billionaire donors. At every turn, the Republicans are making abortion illegal, eliminating federal support for public education, undermining workers, and disarming America in the face of the climate crisis. Their policies make communities less safe and threaten national security. House Democrats will not support these funding bills that harm children, working families, seniors, and veterans,\u2019 said Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03), Appropriations Committee Ranking Member.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The MAGA House and Senate GOP have returned for their final round before Election Day, and the American people deserve more than what they saw last time Congress was in session: chaos, infighting, and political gamesmanship designed to serve one man \u2013 Donald Trump \u2014 above the American people. This Congress, MAGA congressional Republicans\u2019 tenure […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1047996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nFive Questions MAGA Republicans on Capitol Hill Should Answer As Congress Reconvenes - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/five-questions-maga-republicans-on-capitol-hill-should-answer-as-congress-reconvenes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-09-10T16:36:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image.png?w=1024\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/five-questions-maga-republicans-on-capitol-hill-should-answer-as-congress-reconvenes\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/five-questions-maga-republicans-on-capitol-hill-should-answer-as-congress-reconvenes\/\",\"name\":\"Five Questions MAGA Republicans on Capitol Hill Should Answer As Congress Reconvenes - 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