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The facts on McCarthy’s ‘Setting the Record Straight’ memo

House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) issued a memo on June 9 to defend the Cantor-McCarthy gimmick to fund highway spending, which would use the phony savings from a hypothetical future bailout of the Postal Service to fund a temporary extension of the Highway Trust Fund.

Rather than “Setting the Record Straight,” McCarthy’s memo continues to confuse and mislead on a number of key issues.

Click here to read the facts (PDF).