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Roundup: Analyzing House Republicans’ Harmful Debt-Ceiling-and-Cuts Bill

| By CBPP

This post was updated on May 30, 2023.

The White House and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced an agreement to suspend the debt ceiling on May 27. CBPP President Sharon Parrott released a statement about the deal. 

House Republicans used the need to raise the debt ceiling as a bargaining chip to try to force a set of unpopular, harmful policies that they laid out in their debt-ceiling-and-cuts bill. We collected our analyses of the bill here:

Overview Analysis of House Republican Bill: McCarthy Bill Uses Debt Ceiling to Force Harmful Policies, Deep Cuts

Additional overview materials:

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SPEAKER MCCARTHY'S BILL CUTS BILLIONS FROM HEALTH COVERAGE, FOOD ASSISTANCE, GIVES BILLIONS TO TAX CHEATS

House Republican Proposals to Cut a Range of Domestic Priorities by Capping Funding for Appropriated Programs

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HOUSE REPUBLICAN BILL WOULD FORCE SHARP CUTS IN NEEDED HOUSING ASSISTANCE

House Republican Proposals to Take Health Coverage from People Who Don’t Meet a Work-Reporting Requirement

House Republican Proposals to Take Food Assistance from People Who Don’t Meet a Work-Reporting Requirement

House Republican Proposals to Take TANF Income Support from People Who Don’t Meet a Work-Reporting Requirement

House Republican Proposals to Protect Tax Cheats

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MCCARTHY BILL GIVES BILLIONS TO TAX CHEATS, TAKES BILLIONS FROM LOW-INCOME FAMILIES