"I can understand why Democrats don’t want to use reconciliation for the debt ceiling because politically it will be tough. But I don’t understand why we as Republicans are folding here."
Category: Taxation
“I rise to speak for the generations of Americans who this body is irresponsibly drowning in debt. Now, to be clear, debt is a bipartisan problem. That is a problem both parties bear substantial responsibility for.”
“With more than 40 separate tax increases, collectively worth $2 trillion, it would be the largest package of tax increases in decades.”
Biden said the quiet part out loud.
Democrats want to force electric utilities to model their grids off of the high-cost, blackout-prone system that liberals have set up in the state of California.
"I have received more calls, more e-mails, more letters...on this one topic than on any one topic that I can recall in the time I have been in the United States Senate"
Democrats’ reckless taxing and spending spree isn’t even fully developed, and it already contains more than 40 different tax increases that would hurt families and help China.
The public needs to know that personal information provided to the IRS remains confidential, and not available for targeting or political agendas, especially in light of current efforts to expand private information collection on American taxpayers.
Democrats plan to resort to cooking the books, using budget tricks and fuzzy math to make the bill look smaller than it actually is.
The trade war is a failed policy of the previous administration, and we are disappointed to hear that the current tariffs will remain in effect. Leaving the tariffs in place will only continue the harm they’ve done to the American economy.