Madam President, we are less than 100 days into the Biden administration, and already we can identify a pattern in how they are building their policy initiatives, interacting with Congress, and marketing their ideas to the American people. In every example, the governing rule can be boiled down to ``what you see isn't what you are going to get.'' So far, in this 117th Congress, every single major policy proposal that DC Democrats have forced into the spotlight has been based on a false premise. They have intentionally misled the American people and are now catering to the increasingly radical leftwing that gets further out of step with the rest of this country each and every passing day. Consider last month's absurd $1.9 trillion spending package. The Democrats billed this as ``the American Rescue Plan'' and ``COVID relief,'' but only 9 percent--9 percent--of the total package pricetag went for testing, vaccinations, and healthcare jobs. The rest they used on a massive blue State bailout and blatant redistribution of wealth. It is the same story with this month's $2.25 trillion spending package. They have done their best to pass this off as an ``infrastructure plan,'' but even if you add up every single line item that is dedicated to roads, bridges, highways, interstates, ports, waterways, airports, broadband, and the power grid, only a little over one-third of that plan will pay for actual infrastructure projects.…
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