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Marjorie Taylor Greene: “We traded [our vote to increase the debt ceiling] for…”

Featuring: Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican | U.S. House, Georgia, District 14

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… something that we swore we would never vote on, and that was to increase the debt ceiling. But the only reason we, we gave our vote for that is because We traded [our vote to increase the debt ceiling] for something we wanted and we stuck together on it. We wanted a 1% cut to the budget. Just 1%. 1%. And 1% is actually massive. And this was Thomas Massie's plan. He came up with it. (1:04:40–1:04:49)

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Asserts that she and Thomas Massie voted to increase the debt ceiling in exchange for a 1% budget cut.

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