The following article by Susan Du was posted on the CityPages website October 27, 2017:
Minnesota’s three Republican congressmen — Tom Emmer, Jason Lewis, and Erik Paulsen — share an essential creed. Americans are being overtaxed. Government spending is out of control. And the national debt — now at $20 trillion — is an outrage.
Paulsen has called the debt the “single biggest threat to national security.”
Lewis vowed in May to “protect our children’s future from Washington’s unsustainable and reckless spending … by funding programs that actually work for Americans and making sensible reforms to tackle the debt.”
In fact, paying down the debt is so important to both him and Emmer, both voted against spending on hurricane disaster relief. That’s the definition of sticking to your principles. Continue reading “Emmer, Paulsen, and Lewis decide the deficit isn’t so important after all”