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Top Republicans have responded to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s criticism of their “Commitment to America” plan which they unveiled on Friday.
In a statement, the top Republicans predicted that the American people would “reject” Pelosi and the Democrats in the upcoming midterm elections.
“The American people will reject Speaker Pelosi and Democrats’ plan to raise taxes, kill jobs, and weaken our national security,” the statement said.
The “Commitment to America” is a set of policy proposals that the Republicans say will help create jobs, increase wages, and reduce the deficit.
Pelosi criticized the plan, saying that it was “all about election-year politics.”
“After years of governing for the benefit of their special interests and political donors, Republicans have finally released their much-anticipated ‘Commitment to America.’ It is all about election-year politics,” Pelosi said in a statement.
She continued: “Today’s rollout is the latest evidence of House Republicans’ whole-hearted commitment to MAGA: going all-in on an extremist agenda designed to greatly diminish Americans’ health, freedom and security.”
“This alarming new extreme MAGA platform threatens to criminalize women’s health care, slash seniors’ Medicare and raise prescription drug prices, and attack our free and fair elections.”
“While they recycle the same tired ideas that hurt our economy and middle class families, House Democrats are focused on moving America forward,” she continued.
Pelosi also accused the Republicans of “plagiarism”, saying that some of their ideas were taken from Democratic proposals.
House Minority Leader McCarthy responded to Pelosi’s statement: “Because the Democrats have caused inflation, crime in our streets by defunding the police, runaway spending causing inflation.”
“Going after American energy and making the price of gas, causing inflation. This is a plan to fix the problems the Democrats have created, and I think the American public should have an election based upon ideas.”
“I think why she does that is she can’t run on the policies and the damage they’ve caused to America. And they have no plan to fix it.”
Minority Whip Scalise also responded: “When she says American energy independence is extreme, I think people know who’s the extremist,” Scalise added. “When she says securing our border is extreme, so we don’t have over 100,000 young people die from fentanyl, she’s showing herself to be the extremist.”
“People are angry about all of the spending, the inflation, the out-of-control policies that have come from this big, far-left socialism agenda that Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden have pushed,” Scalise noted further. “The Commitment to America is a bold, conservative answer to what’s broken in Washington.”
“We’re gonna actually focus on fixing the problems that Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden created, and I think you’re going to see tremendous excitement all around the country, not just from Republicans, but from Democrats and independents, too, who are tired of that far-left, extremist socialist agenda.”
Overall, House Republicans responded by saying that they “welcome” the debate on their ideas.
“We welcome the debate on our ideas to create jobs, increase wages, and reduce the deficit. The American people deserve better than Nancy Pelosi and Democrats’ do-nothing leadership,” the statement said.
