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On the recordJanuary 30, 2024
Since President Biden took office, inflation has risen by over 17.2 percent. The spike in prices from the gas pump to the grocery store has forced Americans to spend, additionally, $11,000 a year just to afford basic goods. A family can't afford repair bills that have increased due to inflation, young people cannot save money to buy a home when the price of rent has increased by 18 percent, and seniors can't afford their medications when food prices have risen by 20 percent in just 3 years. This inflation is a tax on each and every American, and it is caused by the runaway spending of President Joe Biden's budget. American families cannot afford to carry on with business as usual. Our country cannot afford for inflation to outpace wages year after year while American families pay the price, and the Biden administration promotes continued reckless spending. At a time when Americans are already paying high heating prices, President Biden canceled the sale of liquefied natural gas, cutting jobs here at home, and raising the cost to heat our homes. It is time to address the inflation caused by Joe Biden's 3-year spending spree. It is time now to return to fiscal responsibility. It is time to stop growing our deficit and borrowing money from China to subsidize far-left energy programs. Americans are counting on us to counter this out-of-control inflation, and it is time that the President puts what is good for our country ahead of what would benefit him politically.…
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John Joyce
Republican · Pennsylvania

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