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. The Congressional Budget Office just said that increases the deficit. But at the end of the day, that's what's part of this deal. That's part of what he was able to extract. (02:06–02:14)
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Asserts that McCarthy pushed for cutting IRS programs targeting billionaire tax cheats and corporate contributors.
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