{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=C99C16D5-BDC7-42CF-8B81-F302CC832BE5", "Democrats\u2019 Reckless Spending Spree Would Funnel Billions to Left-Wing Special Interests", "2021-10-26", "2021", "2021-10", "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\u201cOn the whole, the reckless taxing and spending spree that Democrats want to ram through will hurt families and help China.\n\n\u201cBut when you take a close look, there are some special groups of people here at home who would make out like bandits. There are specific special interests that Democrats take great pains to look after.\n\n\u201cFor example, a whole chunk of money the Democrats\u2019 proposal supposedly sets aside for patient healthcare would actually finance ultra-generous benefits for members of the powerful, left-wing union, the SEIU.\n\n\u201cThe Big Labor bonanza doesn\u2019t stop there. Democrats\u2019 tax plans would allow the expiration of Americans\u2019 above-the-line deduction for charitable and nonprofit donations\u2026 but in its place, they want substitute in a brand-new subsidy for union dues!\n\n\u201cTough luck for the Red Cross and your church collection plate. Washington Democrats say Big Labor bosses come first.\n\n\u201cDemocrats also propose lavishing billions of dollars on something they call \u2018environmental and climate justice block grants.\u2019\n\n\u201cThat sounds like a gift-wrapped giveaway to the universe of nonprofits and activist groups that seemingly exist to grift off of government grants.\n\n\u201cThey\u2019d spend billions more on tax credits to subsidize luxury purchases that are overwhelmingly made by wealthy people, like electric cars and $8,000 electric bicycles.\n\n\u201cThen there are billions more in special subsidies and loans for the next generation of Solyndras.\n\n\u201cThe gravy train doesn\u2019t stop there.\n\n\u201cWhen the Biden Administration proposed spending $40 billion on public housing renovations, the senior Senator from New York urged them to double down and spend another $40 billion exclusively on his hometown.\n\n\u201cThat\u2019s $40 billion dollars to a housing authority that is apparently well known for bribery and mismanagement \u2014 because the Democratic Leader requested it.\n\n\u201cMeanwhile, in Speaker Pelosi\u2019s backyard of San Francisco, the elite trustees of a massive park and development project are licking their chops.\n\n\u201cThe Speaker plans to set aside $200 million dollars of the spending spree for this park that is specifically not meant to receive taxpayer money, so they can focus on, \u2018environmental and social justice.\u2019\n\n\u201cThe Democrats\u2019 spree would also tear down the longstanding, bipartisan Hyde Amendment protections so they can directly fund abortion providers like Planned Parenthood with taxpayer dollars.\n\n\u201cToday\u2019s left cannot miss an opportunity to send Planned Parenthood a new slush fund.\n\n\u201cAnd then there is Democrats\u2019 obsession with the so-called SALT cap.\n\n\u201cEven as our colleagues draft the biggest tax hikes in half a century, they cannot resist the concept of special tax cuts for high earners in blue states.\n\n\u201cThey want to reintroduce a federal tax subsidy for living in high-tax states.\n\n\u201cOne outside analysis has found that a two-year repeal of the SALT cap would send more than $300,000 to the average household in the top 0.1%. The average household in the bottom 60% would get about $15.\n\n\u201cThis isn\u2019t a joke. This is literally the SALT policy that Democrats want. Three hundred grand for the richest folks on the coast, and 15 bucks for normal families.\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s the same set-up everywhere you look. Special interests who are connected to the Democratic Party would make out like bandits... and middle-class families would get the bill.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:24:51Z"]], "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=C99C16D5-BDC7-42CF-8B81-F302CC832BE5"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8736858144402504, "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"}