On the recordMarch 2, 2022
Mr. President, last night, President Biden delivered his State of the Union Address. While the President tried to put a positive spin on things, the truth of the matter is the United States is not thriving under Democratic control. On the economic front, of course, Americans are struggling under the burden of the worst inflation in 40 years. There are Americans raising families today who had not yet been born the last time inflation was this bad. Under Democratic control, Americans have seen their standard of living decline as they face massive increases in the price of basic necessities from groceries to gas. Inflation is so bad that despite wage increases in 2021, Americans saw a de facto pay cut. After months of ignoring soaring inflation numbers, the President and congressional Democrats have at last been forced to start talking about inflation. Unfortunately, it has become clear they still don't understand why this inflation disaster happened and how their massive government spending spree--the so-called American Rescue Plan Act--helped create this crisis. ``The American Rescue Plan helped working people--and left no one behind,'' the President said in his speech last night. ``It worked.'' ``It worked,'' he said. If President Biden believes that, I have some oceanfront property in South Dakota to sell him. The truth of the matter is that working Americans are struggling right now in large part due to the American Rescue Plan.…





