AUSTIN, Texas -- Today, Texas Democratic Party Chairman Gilberto Hinojosa released the following statement on Kevin McCarthy and MAGA Congressional Republicans announcing their new “agenda:”

“Republicans are desperate to distract from the fact that their real political agenda is to degrade democracy, deny women their privacy and freedom, and abandon the needs of working class families for the sake of their billionaire donors,” said Chairman Hinojosa. “Over and over we watch Republicans lie to our faces by taking credit for funding and opportunities that they voted against. I know voters want, need, and deserve better – and will vote for Democrat representatives like Vicente González and Michelle Vallejo in South Texas: representatives who value truth and integrity and working Texas families, not the Republican brand of extremism and lies.”

As a reminder, here are Republicans’ true agenda – as they have made clear countless times:

• Repeal key pieces of the IRA and make healthcare more expensive. Republicans have come right out and said it: They want to repeal efforts to lower health care, prescription drug, and energy costs, even if it means shutting down the government.  

• Ban abortion nationwide. Building on their earlier attempts and Kevin McCarthy’s promise, House Republicans introduced another bill to ban abortion nationwide. And Lindsey Graham wants to throw doctors and nurses in jail for providing health care services.

• Put Social Security and Medicare on the chopping block. Sen. Rick Scott and the Republican Study Committee have introduced plans to sunset or roll back access to Social Security and Medicare. This is outrageous, but it isn’t new. Republicans for decades have attempted to dismantle Social Security and Medicare and now they are at it again.  

• Repeal the Affordable Care Act. Republicans will again try to repeal the ACA. Sen. Ron Johnson has called for it if Republicans retake control of Washington, and the Rick Scott plan to sunset federal programs every five years would do it. 

• Defund the DOJ and FBI. Hellbent on standing up for Donald Trump, Republicans have made numerous calls to defund the FBI, DOJ, and multiple other government agencies.  

• Undermine democracy and cancel votes. Republicans have shown a relentless commitment to Donald Trump’s Big Lie, voting against ensuring what happened January 6 doesn’t happen again.

And if that’s not bad enough, this Republican agenda can be seen through their NO votes on laws that address actual challenges people are facing:   

• American Rescue Plan, which created record job growth and recovery, kept small businesses open, funded law enforcement and first responders, and many other things. 

• Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which is creating good-paying jobs while improving our nation’s infrastructure.
  
  

• Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, the largest step forward on broadly popular commonsense gun reform in 30 years.

• CHIPS and Science Act, which will reduce America’s reliance on foreign industry, boost our ability to compete with China, and secure supply chains through good-paying American manufacturing jobs.  

• PACT Act, which will get critical health care to the brave veterans exposed to burn pits while serving in the military.

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