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On the recordJanuary 24, 2024
Madam President, I rise to bring attention to the abject failures of the Biden administration 3 years on. Let's briefly recap the last 3 years from Joe Biden: executed a disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan that led to the death of 13 brave members of our Armed Forces; targeted parents at school board meetings and floated the idea of deeming them as domestic terrorists in an official memo; declared outright war on domestic energy production and then pillaged our Strategic Petroleum Reserve causing gas prices to soar; attempted to force tens of millions of Americans to get a vaccine or lose their jobs; recklessly spent billions and billions of dollars, which led to historic inflation and soaring prices. He refused to enforce the laws in place that we currently have at the southern border and proactively fought those laws in court, leading to recordbreaking numbers of illegal immigration; created the largest censorship enterprise in American history and worked with Big Tech companies to censor Americans' voices; repeatedly vilified half the country as MAGA extremists in speech after speech; attempted to unilaterally cancel a half a trillion dollars' worth of student loan debt; weaponized agencies like the FBI to go after Catholics and, more broadly, American citizens; projected weakness on the world stage; and has emboldened our enemies. I could go on, but I think you get the point.…
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Eric Schmitt
Republican · Missouri

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