{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.young.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/video-young-gives-nightmare-before-christmas-speech-on-us-senate-floor/", "VIDEO: Young Gives \u2018Nightmare Before Christmas\u2019 Speech on U.S. Senate Floor", "2021-12-09", "2021", "2021-12", "Republican", "Senate", "IN", "Todd Young", "Y000064", "www.young.senate.gov", "toddyoung", "https://www.young.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 U.S. Senator Todd Young (R-Ind.) gave a speech on the U.S. Senate Floor today highlighting some of the \u201cgifts\u201d included in the Democrats\u2019 Build Back Better Act that could cost American families this Christmas season.\n\n\u201cIt seems that Democrats want our children and grandchildren to pay for this bundle of goodies through the lay-away plan. GDP is projected to fall because of Build Back Better.\n\n\u201cColleagues, the best present all of us can give the American people is to do whatever is in our power to stop the Build Back Better Act,\u201d said Senator Young during his speech.\n\nClick here to view the Senator\u2019s full speech.\n\nSee Below for the Senator\u2019s Full Remarks as Prepared for Delivery:\n\nIn case anyone was wondering, there are 16 shopping days left before Christmas.\n\nI know I still have some shopping to do myself, but it seems as though President Biden and my Democratic colleagues here in Congress have already done most of their shopping.\n\nThat\u2019s good thinking.\n\nYou can\u2019t start too early with the supply chain as bad as it is.\n\nSo let\u2019s gather around the Christmas tree to see what gifts Democrats are prepared to pass out on Christmas morning thanks to their reckless tax-and-spend bill.\n\nTo left-wing labor unions \u2013 Democrats are gifting billions of dollars in handouts to strengthen this core constituency of theirs.\n\nWhile they\u2019re letting charitable tax deductions expire in Build Back Better, they have giftwrapped an above-the-line tax deduction for union dues.\n\nAnd as a special Christmas surprise, they\u2019re putting under the tree a shiny new tax credit for electric vehicles \u2013 but only if those vehicles are made in a union shop.\n\nYou see, if you are naughty and buy an electric vehicle from a non-union shop like those in my state of Indiana, you will miss out on the Democrats\u2019 $4,500 holiday give-away in this bill.\n\nApparently, during this Christmas season, the impact of EVs on climate change only matters if the workers\u2019 contracts are collectively bargained.\n\nWhich brings us to China, the tax hikes on businesses large and small in this bill will give China an unfair competitive advantage.\n\nIncreasing taxes on American businesses by more than $800 billion when they\u2019re already struggling with supply-chain issues and worker shortages will do very little to bring the jobs of the future here.\n\nWhich is exactly why the communist leaders in China will love this gift.\n\nAnd the largest gift under Washington Democrats\u2019 tree goes to none other than the rich.\n\nBy dramatically increasing the cap on the State and Local Tax deduction or SALT for short.\n\nThe once-proud \u201cparty of the working class\u201d is giving a tax cut to two-thirds of people earning more than $1 million a year. The average size of that cut is almost $17,000 a year for millionaires.\n\nThis is the now Democratic Party. Merry Christmas. This is the single most expensive tax expenditure in the Build Back Better Act and it\u2019s the second biggest component of the whole bill.\n\nEvidently, Democrats believe it\u2019s better to give than receive from millionaires so they have proposed a tax cut for the wealthiest Americans from the wealthiest cities, gift wrapped from the Democratic Party.\n\nBut maybe there\u2019s something under the tree for the rest of us?\n\nAfter the handouts, giveaways, entitlements, and earmarks, what\u2019s left for regular, middle class working stiffs?\n\nWe know that the really big gifts come in the smallest packages\u2026a lump of coal.\n\nThat lump of coal represents a massive $367 billion that will be added to the debt by the Democrats\u2019 reckless tax-and-spend bill according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.\n\nNot to mention the ten years of tax increases included in the bill to pay for only a few years of policy changes.\n\nOf course, we all know that figure will be much higher in reality. If all the temporary provisions in this bill are made permanent \u2013 it will increase our budget deficit by nearly $3 trillion this decade.\n\nIt seems that Democrats want our children and grandchildren to pay for this bundle of goodies through the lay-away plan.\n\nGDP is projected to fall because of Build Back Better. The cost of living is expected to rise even more than it already has over the last year because of BBB.\n\nAnd despite promises from President Biden & my Senate Democratic colleagues, if BBB were to become law, taxes would be raised on lower and middle class Americans who are just trying to get by.\n\nLadies and gentlemen, this Christmas season, Democrats are not offering holiday jobs or good cheer.\n\nInstead, this feels more like the Nightmare Before Christmas. Colleagues, the best present all of us can give the American people is to do whatever is in our power to stop the Build Back Better Act.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:37:48Z"]], "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.young.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/video-young-gives-nightmare-before-christmas-speech-on-us-senate-floor/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.6870161052793264, "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"}