Biden’s Inflation Crisis. Biden’s Border Crisis. Biden’s Energy Crisis. Biden’s Afghanistan Crisis. Since President Biden came to office, his administration’s policies have led to serious challenges for our country. This week, Washington Democrats jammed through a budget that will only make each of these crises worse and in doing so provided the most stark example yet that Nancy Pelosi treats the People’s House like it’s her personal palace.
Unfortunately, for the American people, her deceit means new policies that harm the working class through skyrocketing inflation, higher energy costs, increasing taxes, and more command and control for Washington bureaucrats over their lives.
In July, the House Budget Committee was supposed to consider and advance a Democrat budget resolution - but the reality was, Democrats couldn’t find the votes to pass their radical tax and spend vision for America in our Committee. As a result, they decided to skip our Committee and put the Budget directly on the floor of the U.S. House for a vote, but they once again found what they found in our Committee - they didn’t have the votes. On Aug. 23, we were called back to Washington specifically so they could now try and pass Senate Budget Chair, Bernie Sanders, Budget, but once again they didn’t have the votes. But that didn’t stop them - in the dead of night, Washington Democrats compromised amongst themselves to sell out hardworking Americans for non-binding promises that enable them to spend and tax even more. If it weren’t so serious, their maneuvering would be comical.
Bernie’s Budget spends $68 trillion over the next 10 years and enacts the largest tax increase in American history. In fact, in this budget proposal, American small businesses will pay more in taxes in the U.S. than they would if they opened up shop in communist China. Instead of protecting the working class, this budget allows tax increases to go into effect. The result of their policies is the worst tax increase of all: higher inflation that leaves seniors on a fixed income with a harder choice of whether to fill up the tank in their car, buy groceries to eat, or fill their prescriptions. Inflation makes Americans’ paychecks worth less, and it’s the direct result of runaway government spending.