Thread by @RepDonBeyer

McConnell is full of malarkey.

In 2017 Republicans tried to strip health care from millions, then cut taxes for the rich without paying for it, all on party line votes. They had total control of government, but still needed our help raising the debt ceiling.

We gave it to them.

https://twitter.com/frankthorp/status/1445042839851880448

We helped raise the debt limit when Republicans had total control of government in 2017 because the alternative - refusing to pay America's bills - would have caused a default that wrecked the economy.

That's something neither party should be willing to risk for any reason.

McConnell's claim Democrats are governing "alone" is a lie. The Senate-passed infrastructure bill was negotiated with Republicans, McConnell even voted for it. McConnell is also once again blocking legislation with bipartisan support from even getting a vote, as he famously does.

McConnell is also lying by claiming his refusal to pay America's bills, to pay the cost of bills that he passed, is about debt. The tax cuts for the rich he passed via reconciliation in 2017 added trillions to the national debt. We are *paying* for the Build Back Better Act.

Everything McConnell is saying on the debt ceiling is a lie. He himself admits that failure to raise it would lead to economic disaster. If he is dead set on voting for that disaster to happen, he could still allow us to raise the debt limit on our own. But he isn't doing that.

Instead McConnell and Senate Republicans keep filibustering legislation to pay America's bills and prevent a catastrophic default that would wreck the economy, cause a new recession, and cost millions of Americans their jobs.

He's trying to sabotage the recovery to hurt @POTUS.