Sixty bipartisan representatives urged House leaders on June 1 to include budget reforms on the nation’s spiraling national debt and unfunded Social Security and Medicare benefits in the next CCP virus response bill, but critics across the political spectrum were unimpressed.
Led by Rep. Scott Peters (D-Calif.) and Rep. Jodey Arrington (R-Texas), the group of 30 representatives from each party told Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) that failure to act “could do irreparable damage to our country.”
