Congressman Edolphus Towns of the 10th District, which includes all of Bedford-Stuyvesant, voted against the plan which he says includes cuts to vital domestic programs that will have a devastating impact on an already fragile economy.

“I am deeply dismayed that the compromise reached to raise the debt ceiling included no revenue raising provisions, but instead was laced with trillions of dollars in cuts to vital domestic programs,” said Towns. “I have long maintained that we should either raise the debt ceiling in a clean vote with no additional policy provisions, or if cuts are deemed necessary, then revenue must be raised to balance the deal.