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After Democrats Went Whole Hog On Spending, Americans’ Wallets Get Seared By Inflation
Poll After Poll Shows 'The Cost Of Living Remains The Public's Top Issue Facing The Country,' With Food And Fuel Prices Squeezing Families, Farmers, And Restaurants, Yet House Democrats Seem To Have Only 'Recently' Discovered This Reality After Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA)'s Revelation That Bacon Is Expensive SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): "The country just received yet another terrible inflation report. Yet again, overall inflation came in higher than expected: 8.3 percent. In… Continue Reading
04.12.22
As Biden’s Inflation Hammers Americans, Economists Warn A Subsequent Recession Is ‘Virtually Inevitable’
'Costs For Food, Gasoline, Housing And Other Necessities [Are] Squeezing American Consumers And Wiping Out The Pay Raises That Many People Have Received' And Economists Are Now Warning That This Painful Inflation Is Likely To Lead To A Recession (U.S. Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member, Press Release, 4/12/2022) Inflation In March Increased 8.5% Year-On-Year 'Its Fastest Pace In More Than 40 Years,' And The Tenth Straight Month In Which Inflation Exceeded 5% "Inflation soared ove… Continue Reading
03.29.22
Americans Place The Blame For Inflation And Soaring Gas Prices Right Where It Belongs: On President Biden’s Policies
Recent Polls Show Americans Aren't Buying The Lame Spin From The White House And Democrats In Congress About Inflation And High Gas Prices Being The Fault Of Everything But Their Own Policies SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): "America's working families continue to face strong headwinds as they try to make ends meet. The historic inflation kicked off by runaway liberal spending last year is still taking its toll, one paycheck at a time…. Unfortunately, Washington Democr… Continue Reading
03.14.22
Democrats’ Gaslighting About Their Inflationary Spending Is So Bad It’s Insulting
Polling Shows Americans Rightly Blame President Biden For The Historic Inflation Burdening Families And Small Businesses And Aren't Buying Democrats' Absurd Attempts To Explain It Away, Which Contradict Both Economic Experts And Democrats' Own Prior Admissions That 'The Spending That We Did' Contributed To Inflation Democrats Are Desperately Trying To Gaslight The American Public About Their Inflationary Spending PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: "We have to talk about it because the American people th… Continue Reading
03.10.22
Biden’s Presidency: Nine Straight Months Of Inflation Exceeding 5% And The Most Expensive Gas Prices In U.S. History
'The Fastest Pace Of Inflation In 40 Years' And The Highest Gas Prices In U.S. History Are Hammering Ordinary Americans, With 'Nearly Every Category Of Goods And Services' Increasing In Price Over The Last Month SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): "Everybody knows that gas prices and energy costs have been soaring sharply for many months. Working families know all too well that gas prices and utility costs have been rising throughout President Biden's tenure. Just this morning, … Continue Reading
03.01.22
Economists Dismiss Dems’ Inflation Gimmicks As Both Political And Pointless
Even Economists Friendly To Democrats Are Unimpressed With The Political Stunts Dems In Congress Have Trotted Out As Unserious Ways To Grapple With The Inflation Their Reckless Spending Has Unleashed SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): "Washington Democrats' inflation is slamming consumers with the highest prices in 40 years. One of the toughest blows has been the soaring cost of a trip to the gas station. … So, after triggering an historic run of inflation… our Democ… Continue Reading
02.28.22
Democrats Suddenly Desperate To Discuss The Inflation Their Policies Caused
LEADER McCONNELL: 'This Was A Policy Choice. This All-Democrat Government Was Warned Their Radical Agenda Would Supercharge Inflation And They Pushed Ahead Anyway. And Our Country Is Paying The Price' SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): "The cost of essentials has absolutely exploded since Washington Democrats took power. And to be clear, the worst inflation in 40 years is not something that just spontaneously happened to Democrats on their watch. As a Pew report demonstrated late … Continue Reading
02.17.22
Democrats’ Gas Tax Gimmick Can’t Hide Their Policies That Are Designed To Raise Energy Prices
Democrats Facing Frustrated Voters In November Are Proposing To Suspend The Gas Tax In An Obvious Election Year Gimmick, But Have Spent A Year Voting For And Supporting Green New Deal Policies To Strangle Domestic Energy Production That Have Sent Prices Soaring SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): ""Washington Democrats' inflation is slamming consumers with the highest prices in 40 years. One of the toughest blows has been the soaring cost of a trip to the gas station. A gallon of r… Continue Reading
02.15.22
Determined To Go Big, Democrats Ignored All Warnings About Inflation As They Hastened To Pass $2 Trillion In Stimulus Spending
Cautioned By Liberal Economists And Republicans That Their Nearly $2 Trillion Liberal Spending Wishlist A Year Ago Would Overheat The Economy And Set Off Inflation, Democrats Rejected Every Warning, Declaring, 'The Dangers Of Undershooting Our Response Are Far Greater Than Overshooting' SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): "At this time last year, Washington Democrats were beginning their quest to dump trillions of dollars in left-wing spending on a recovering economy that already h… Continue Reading
02.10.22
Higher Inflation Erodes Americans’ Finances, As Economists Lay Blame On Excessive Dem Spending
Another Terrible Inflation Report Highlights American Families' Struggles With Soaring Prices, Which 'Has Left An Indelible Mark On The Economy, Including The Highest Price Increases For Housing, Food And Energy That Many Workers Have Ever Seen' SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): "Moments ago, the country got yet another terrible monthly inflation report under the Biden Administration. Yet again, the data confirm what working families already know painfully well: Rampant inflati… Continue Reading
02.08.22
Economic Reality For Americans Is A Far Cry From Democrats’ Disconnected Rhetoric
While President Biden And Democrat Leaders Try To Paint A Rosy Economic Picture, The Reality For Most Americans Is Painful Inflation For Housing, Food, And Energy, Which Is 'Wiping Out Pay Increases' SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): "Working Americans and their families are being hammered by the worst inflation in 40 years. And Washington Democrats own it…. The pain that families are feeling today was not just foreseeable, it was foreseen, by experts across the political … Continue Reading
01.19.22
President Biden’s First Year Of Failure
Since President Biden Was Sworn In A Year Ago, He's Presided Over The Worst Inflation In Four Decades And Record-Breaking Increases In Crime, Failed To Shut Down COVID Or Handle The Crisis At The Southern Border, And Ordered A Calamitous And Shameful Withdrawal From Afghanistan Seven Straight Months Of Inflation Exceeding 5% Is A Biden Administration Policy Failure, Costing American Families $3,500 For The Same Level Of Goods And Services Inflation In December Increased 7% Year-On-Year, '… Continue Reading
01.12.22
Seven Straight Months Of Inflation Exceeding 5% Is A Biden Administration Policy Failure
'Prices Rose At The Fastest Pace In 40 Years In December, Increasing 7 Percent Over The Same Period A Year Ago, And Cementing 2021 As A Year Marked By Soaring Inflation,' 'The Latest Evidence That Rising Costs For Food, Rent And Other Necessities Are Heightening The Financial Pressures On America's Households' SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): "The Democrats' wasteful spending last spring helped ignite the worst inflation in 40 years. But our colleagues spent the rest of 2021 try… Continue Reading
12.01.21
As Fed Chair Admits Inflation Is Not Transitory, Biden Must Back Off His Bill That Would Accelerate It
As Americans Continue To Get Hit Hard With Inflation, The Federal Reserve Chairman Is Admitting That The Price Spikes Are Not Transitory, Meaning It's Long Past Time For The Biden White House To Drop Their Reckless Taxing And Spending Plans, Which Will Only Fuel Further Inflation SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): "A famous economist once said that inflation is the only form of tax that can be levied without any legislation. But what's remarkable about 2021 is that Democrats did d… Continue Reading
11.19.21
Democrats’ Deception Exposed: Their Reckless Taxing-And-Spending Spree Adds To The Deficit, Fuels Inflation, And Hikes Taxes On The Middle Class
President Biden And Democrats Have Claimed Repeatedly That Their Multitrillion Dollar Socialist Taxing-And-Spending Spree Won't Increase The Deficit, Won't Add To Already-Accelerating Inflation, And Won't Increase Taxes On Americans Making Less Than $400,000 A Year, But Independent Analyses Have Shown All Those Assertions To Be False The Congressional Budget Office Confirms That Democrats' Reckless Taxing-And-Spending Bill Is NOT Paid For, And Will Add $800 Billion To The Deficit Over The … Continue Reading
11.17.21
Democrats Determined To Ignore Inflation Warnings From Economists And American Families
Contrary To Facially Absurd Claims From The Biden White House That Their Reckless Taxing And Spending Plan Won't Fuel Inflation, Economists Project It Will Indeed Add To Already High Inflation Over The Next Year, Something That Is Obvious To American Families Feeling The Inflationary Crunch SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): "[T]here is no question what crisis is top of mind for middle-class families. There is no question what is keeping working Americans awake at night. Inflation… Continue Reading
11.16.21
As Energy Prices Soar, Biden Keeps Trying To Make Energy More Expensive
With Costs For All Forms Of Energy Rising And Accelerating Inflation, Democrats Continue To Push Myopic Energy Policies, Like A Renewed War On Coal And Oil And Gas Exploration Bans, Which Will Only Further Constrain Domestic Energy Supplies And Make Energy Even More Expensive For American Families And Workers SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): "Across the country, working families are already worrying about the big, potentially historic spikes in energy costs and heating bills tha… Continue Reading
11.10.21
Generational High Inflation: Kill The Bill
As Rampant Inflation Continues To Break Records And Hurt American Families, It's Long Past Time For Democrats To Heed Warnings That 'DC Can No Longer Ignore The Economic Pain Americans Feel Every Day' And Drop Their Multi-Trillion Dollar Reckless Taxing-And-Spending Spree SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): "[Democrats] have already created a lot of harm this year with the previous $2 trillion package they passed earlier this year without a single Republican vote. It created raging… Continue Reading
11.08.21
Most Americans Say President Biden Has The Wrong Priorities For The Country
In Spite Of Polling Showing Large Majorities Of Americans Disapprove Of The Priorities Of President Biden And Democrats In Congress, And In The Wake Of An Unmistakable Rebuke From Voters, With Even The New York Times Editorial Board Recognizing Democrats Have Moved Too Far Left, Democrats Have Decided To Change Nothing And Double Down On Their Reckless Taxing-And-Spending Agenda SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): "I think what we can safely say about New Jersey and, to some extent… Continue Reading
11.03.21
Democrats Are Whistling Past The Graveyard
Determined To Ignore The Clear Message Voters Are Sending That They Disapprove Of President Biden And Are Concerned About The Economy, Democrats Are Telling Each Other They Will Plow Ahead With Biden's Reckless Taxing-And-Spending Agenda SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): "Last night was a difficult evening for Democrats. The Democratic Party has wildly misread their mandate and let the radical left run the country. Local Democrats let teachers' unions keep schools shut months lon… Continue Reading
