{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=A8DAFB36-377F-47F6-9612-AD07F64C87D3", "Working Americans Aren\u2019t Buying \u2018Bidenomics\u2019", "2023-11-29", "2023", "2023-11", "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 the economy:\n\n\u201cPresident Biden is on the road today, and he\u2019s facing an uphill battle to convince the American people that \u2018Bidenomics\u2019 is somehow working.\n\n\u201cFor months, the President has been touring the country with a rosy assessment of the economy on his watch. He\u2019s been telling working Americans about what his Administration\u2019s obsession with radical climate policy is doing for them.\n\n\u201cBut by overwhelming margins, the American people haven\u2019t been buying what the President is selling. Polls continue to show that for millions of families, \u2018Bidenomics\u2019 is just code for higher prices, shrinking paychecks, and lower quality of life.\n\n\u201cThe entire nation watched in real-time as the Biden Administration\u2019s war on domestic energy drove the price of gas and home heating through the roof.\n\n\u201cTaxpayers watched Washington Democrats turn their hard-earned dollars into subsidies for blue-state liberal favorites electric cars and home appliances.\n\n\u201cHere\u2019s how one analysis put it, \u2018The typical American household must spend an additional $11,434 annually just to maintain the same standard of living they enjoyed in January of 2021.\u2019\n\n\u201cAn extra $11,000 a year just to stay afloat!\n\n\u201cBut the Biden Administration\u2019s latest tactic appears to be publicly congratulating itself that prices on some everyday staples were rising slower than the record paces that were set during their time in office!\n\n\u201cThe President himself has even wagged his finger at American growers, manufacturers, and retailers to, \u2018stop the price gouging\u2019 now that \u2018inflation has come down.\u2019\n\n\u201cThe Bidenomics strategy apparently depends on working Americans ignoring the reality they live in every day.\n\n\u201cThe White House seems to be counting on middle class families to forget about the 40-year-high inflation their spending binge helped create.\n\n\u201cThey want the country to set aside that average food prices have risen 20% since President Biden took office.\n\n\u201cWell, it doesn\u2019t look like the American people have any intention of suspending their disbelief about Bidenomics. And who on Earth could blame them?\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:49:58Z"]], "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=A8DAFB36-377F-47F6-9612-AD07F64C87D3"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.5241170767694712, "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"}