The Republican congressman voted for the 2017 tax cuts that added more than a trillion dollars to the national debt.
Representative Matt Gaetz was confronted on Sunday about his vote in favor of former President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax cuts that drove up the national deficit.
Congress last week voted to remove House Speaker Kevin McCarthy from his leadership position after Gaetz, a Florida Republican, filed a motion to vacate the office—sending the House of Representatives into chaos. He filed the motion over McCarthy working with Democrats to pass a short-term spending bill to avert a government shutdown that he says violated promises McCarthy made to conservatives to secure their support in the House speaker race in January.
Gaetz has insisted on Congress passing an appropriations bill that would reduce government spending, warning that failing to address the national deficit, which sits at more than $30 trillion, would have economic repercussions for millions of Americans.
