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On the recordAugust 6, 2022
last year, Democrats in this body passed a party-line spending bill, and they spent us into record-high inflation. Ever since then, this has been nothing but bad news for the working families of this country. We have seen the worst inflation in 40 years. Prices have gone up faster than wages month after month after month. Fifteen months in a row now, prices are up faster than wages. Now, Democrats' inflation has caused a recession. As a result, working families are finding it much harder to get by. They can't keep up. The average family can afford less today than they could the day that Joe Biden took office--much less. The savings rate hasn't been this low since the great recession. People are having to spend their savings. Credit card debt is at an alltime high. But the worst gut punch is about to happen right now, making all the pain the Americans have suffered now extend for a longer period of time. If Democrats pass this bill that is on the floor today, this inflation crisis is going to get worse. For weeks, there have been rumors that Democrats were working hidden behind closed doors on another reckless tax-and-spending bill. The American people knew it would be bad, and the bill that we are looking at now is worse than expected. Of course, the Democrats wrote it in secret. They didn't want the American people to know what was inside it.…
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John Barrasso
Republican · Wyoming
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Aug 6, 2022

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