White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has issued a sharply critical statement on the Republican debt-ceiling proposal, calling it a “blueprint to devastate hard-working American families” and accusing the GOP of “holding the American economy hostage” in order to push for spending cuts.
Her statement, issued on Thursday, builds on a rebuke of the Republican plan by President Joe Biden on Wednesday, who called it a “MAGA economic agenda” to cut benefits for “folks they don’t seem to care much about.”
The United States reached its $31.4 trillion debt ceiling in January, leaving it to a politically divided Congress to raise the cap and allow the government to keep paying its bills….