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On the recordApril 28, 2021
Madam President, it has been nearly 100 days since President Biden delivered his inaugural address, promising our Nation ``unity, not division.'' He called on all of us to ``listen to one another,'' noting that unity ``requires more than words.'' I was there, and I was listening. I was hopeful that he actually meant what he said. But that very same day, as soon as he reached the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, President Biden seemed to forget his own words as he began signing a record number of Executive orders. With the stroke of a pen, he unilaterally created a new migrant crisis by reversing the previous administration's successful policies and ceasing construction of the wall. He also killed thousands of jobs for American workers by canceling the XL Pipeline. And that was just his first day on the job. Since then, the President and his Democratic allies in Congress have used a partisan process to fast-track trillions of dollars of new spending for their pricey pet projects. Despite the President's call for us to listen to one another, the Democrats are planning to, once again, fast-track another $2.2 trillion package being sold as an ``infrastructure'' bill, even though it spends less on roads and bridges than it does on parts of the Socialist Green New Deal and other progressive priorities. And then right after that, they want to ram through another $1 trillion for so-called human infrastructure.…
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Joni Ernst
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