{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=49DAA3E0-A3A9-434D-A631-40EFADFDAB44", "While Families Plead for Less Inflation, Democrats Want to Print and Spend Trillions More", "2021-11-29", "2021", "2021-11", "Republican", "Senate", "KY", "Mitch McConnell", "M000355", "www.mcconnell.senate.gov", "mcconnell", "https://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding Democrats\u2019 reckless tax and spending spree:\n\n\u201cWhy do our Democratic colleagues want to shortchange our national defense? To free up their time and attention for another massive, reckless taxing and spending spree. A radical wish list that would hurt American families and help China.\n\n\u201cWorking families are already getting slammed by runaway costs because Democrats\u2019 last massive spending spree drove up inflation. Gas prices are up almost 50%, used car prices are up more than 25%, and grocery prices across practically every category are up significantly over this time last year.\n\n\u201cBut in response, Washington Democrats want to print, borrow, and spend trillions more. Even if you accept all their budget gimmicks at face value, this bill alone would unleash $800 billion in not-paid-for spending in the next five years.\n\n\u201cYears five through ten are when their crushing tax hikes and phony accounting would kick in. But even then, the bill is not paid for. President Biden promised Americans over and over that this legislation would cost zero dollars.\n\n\u201cBut that\u2019s false.\n\n\u201cThe Congressional Budget Office says that after 10 years, after their tax hikes and fake offsets are factored in, their spree would still add $367 billion to the deficit.\n\n\u201cPresident Biden said the deficit impact would be zero. In reality, it is hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars.\n\n\u201cPresident Biden promised Americans something else, too: He said he would never raise taxes on the middle class. People earning less than $400,000 per year were not to pay a penny more.\n\n\u201cHe has completely broken this promise as well. Among the $1.5 trillion in job-killing tax increases are new burdens for small businesses, family farms, and direct hikes on middle-class families earning less than six figures.\n\n\u201cMeanwhile, amazingly, Democrats did find room in their plan to include $300 billion in tax cuts for the wealthiest blue-state zip codes in New York and California. Our colleagues want to pretend they\u2019re launching another New Deal, yet one of the biggest components is a direct cash giveaway to their richest constituents.\n\n\u201cSo the cost of this spending spree would be astronomical. And the massive tax hikes that would only partly pay for it would crush our fragile economy.\n\n\u201cBut what about the content of this liberal wish list?\n\n\u201cIf Democrats get to steal the American people\u2019s credit card for this historic spending spree, what would our citizens even get to unwrap?\n\n\u201cThere\u2019d be massive government giveaways to supposedly \u2018green\u2019 initiatives, giving rise to a whole new generation of waste and abuse like Solyndra.\n\n\u201cThere\u2019d be a gigantic slush fund so that HHS Secretary Becerra, the culture warrior who sued Catholic nuns, could take over daycare and pre-kindergarten across America. He\u2019d be in charge of subsidizing certain kinds of private family choices but not others, and tilting the playing field against faith-based childcare.\n\n\u201cThere\u2019d be a continuation of inflationary welfare payments that Washington is sending out with zero work requirements whatsoever. And illegal immigrants would get the money too.\n\n\u201cOh, and as we speak, Senate Democrats are still trying desperately behind the scenes to get sweeping amnesty included in this bill as well.\n\n\u201cIt goes on and on like this, Madam President. A hodge-podge catalog that is built to satisfy the demands of activists, not the needs of families.\n\n\u201cIf you ask any working-class or middle-class American family for their top concerns, you aren\u2019t going to hear many people pining for massive tax hikes, electric car charging stations, and woke bureaucrats getting control of their kids\u2019 early childhoods.\n\n\u201cMy colleagues across the aisle seem determined to spend the weeks ahead on ways to waste Americans\u2019 money while making Americans\u2019 problems even worse.\n\n\u201cLet\u2019s hope enough of our Democratic colleagues step back, take stock, do the responsible thing\u2026 and kill this bill.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:30:49Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=49DAA3E0-A3A9-434D-A631-40EFADFDAB44"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.828218974173069, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}