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On the recordAugust 6, 2022
as I was reading through this reckless spending spree that my Democratic colleagues are in such a rush to get this thing passed so that they can get it signed into law--I was reading it, and I thought, you know, we have been through this exercise before. We have before us a bill that is too expensive to afford. It has been thrown together behind closed doors, in secret, perfectly branded to prey on the struggles, the fears of the American people because after all, fearful people are easier to control. And what do we know? The Democratic Party, they are all about control and they are all about power. Now, I remembered that this isn't the first time in the Schumer Senate that the Democratic colleagues have tried to turn a crisis into an opportunity. A little over a year ago, they pulled the exact same bait-and-switch with a $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan. Senator Graham talked about this before. It was to bring, oh, so much prosperity. It was to solve all of your problems, help was on the way. But it was a big government blowout in the form of $350 billion in the slush fund for blue cities, a State tax cut ban, a $60 billion tax hike, subsidized government healthcare, and a union pension bailout. Now, it is pretty clear who the Democrats were trying to rescue with that bill. And it was not hard-working American taxpayers. They got the shaft on that. And they know it.…
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Marsha Blackburn
Republican · Tennessee

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