{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=A39DDDB1-7315-47BE-BFB0-C7F19A2278AE", "The Voters Have Spoken: Democrats Should Drop Their Reckless Taxing and Spending Spree", "2021-11-03", "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\u201cLast night was a difficult evening for Democrats.\n\n\u201cThe Democratic Party has wildly misread their mandate and let the radical left run the country.\n\n\u201cLocal Democrats let teachers\u2019 unions keep schools shut months longer than necessary and told parents they didn\u2019t get a say in what their kids are learning.\n\n\u201cWashington Democrats have super-charged inflation, re-created welfare without work requirements, and made America significantly less energy independent.\n\n\u201cPresident Biden was only given a 50-50 Senate and a tiny majority in the House, but he decided to let the radical left run the country. Citizens wanted a return to normalcy but have gotten a never-ending series of government-created crises.\n\n\u201cThe American people will not stand for this. That\u2019s what voters told Democrats last night. The results from different parts of the country demonstrate this was in large part a referendum on national issues.\n\n\u201cDemocrats should listen to the voters, drop their reckless taxing and spending spree, and stop trying to ram through a socialist transformation that the American people never asked for.\n\n\u201cThe radical transformation that Democrats are writing behind closed doors would compound every mistake their party has made.\n\n\u201cLook at virtually any part of American families\u2019 lives\u2026 and Democrats\u2019 reckless taxing and spending spree would seize control of it and yank it way to the left.\n\n\u201cThe same Democrats who don\u2019t want parents involved in schools want to take over daycare and pre-K, crowd out faith-based and family providers, and put this vast new system under the control of the culture-warrior HHS Secretary who sued the Little Sisters of the Poor.\n\n\u201cThe same Democrats who pretend to defend working families are dead-set on a massive tax cut that would overwhelmingly benefit rich people in blue states. One of the biggest pieces of their signature bill is now a huge tax cut for rich people.\n\n\u201cThe same Democrats who say they support science and medicine want to slap arbitrary price controls on Americans\u2019 prescription drugs, reducing future innovation and, according to experts, literally costing Americans their lives who would have lived if not for this policy.\n\n\u201cThe same Democrats who pretend they care about Social Security and Medicare want to stretch seniors\u2019 existing Medicare program even thinner, even though the trust fund is already just a few years from running dry, in order to fund new giveaways.\n\n\u201cThe same Democrats who talk a big game about competing with China wanted to raise taxes so high that our own American industries would face a higher tax rate than businesses have to pay in Communist China.\n\n\u201cThe same Democrats who are still trying to sneak forms of amnesty into this bill also want to make illegal immigrants eligible for the new welfare.\n\n\u201cThe same Democrats who pretend they are forward-thinking on energy issues want to hammer the U.S. economy with painful regulations while bigger emitters like China just keep on emitting. Maximum pain for American families and no measurable gain for emissions or the climate.\n\n\u201cThe bill our colleagues are writing behind closed doors is terrible from top to bottom. More debt, more taxes, and more inflation. Fewer options for American families.\n\n\u201cThis reckless taxing and spending spree would hurt families and help China. This radical social takeover is the last thing Americans need and the last thing Americans want.\n\n\u201cThe voters of America just gave our colleagues a preview of that fact last night. 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