That is being pushed by the most extreme right parts of the Freedom Caucus like Lauren Boebert. That's step one and step two, try to lessen the harm to working families. Because we know that McCarthy's bottom line, what he was in this deal, at the end of the day, it wasn't about the deficit. What he pushed for at the end of the day was cutting IRS programs that go after billionaire tax cheats and his big corporate contributors. (02:01–02:07)
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Asserts that McCarthy's primary concern in the deal was not the deficit.
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