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On the recordDecember 11, 2024
Mr. President, yesterday, President Biden delivered a speech on the economy--a last attempt to rescue his dismal economic record. Incredibly, during the course of the speech, he repeated a phrase that he has often used about growing the economy from the bottom up and the middle out. I am not sure how that phrase continues to get past White House fact checkers because if there is one thing that President Biden has failed to do, it is to build an economy from the bottom up and the middle out. Thanks to President Biden's signature economic legacy--an inflation crisis of historic proportions--today, a typical family has to pay an additional $13,375 per year to maintain the same standard of living it enjoyed when the President took office--$13,375 per year, more than $1,000 per month. And who do you think that affects the most? Not billionaire Democrat donors or Hollywood stars. No. It affects the bottom and the middle the most--the people who don't have a spare $13,000 lying around and who have had to cut back on extras or, in many cases, essentials to survive in the Biden economy. CBS News exit polling in November found that two-thirds of voters described the economy as bad, and 45 percent said their financial situations were worse than they were 4 years ago. And it is no wonder. President Biden likes to talk about giving families breathing room, but his economy took away breathing room for a whole lot of Americans.…
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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