House Republicans Are on the Hook for Killing 1.6 Million Jobs

House Republicans Are on the Hook for Killing 1.6 Million Jobs

The sequester was always a Republican dream, and Republican Budget God Paul Ryan (R-WI) has been championing it since 2004.

On August 1, 2011, Paul Ryan went on Fox News to crow that he finally got his way when sequestration was put into place via the 2011 congressional debt ceiling deal. Yes, that’s right. We got there because House Republicans were holding the economy hostage over raising the debt ceiling because they didn’t want to pay for the things they’d already bought.

Paul Ryan and Eric Cantor (R-VA) admitted that they were the force behind sequestration when they admitted that they got House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) to walk away from the Grand Bargain because they were unwilling to give on any revenue at all.