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Desperate Democrats Now Planning Tax Hikes on Money Americans Haven’t Even Made Yet
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding Democrats' reckless tax and spending spree: "The biggest tax hikes in 50 years. The biggest peacetime tax hikes ever recorded in American history. "That is what Washington Democrats are cooking up. "Our Democratic colleagues and President Biden are behind closed doors, dreaming up creative new ways to grab historic amounts of the American people's money. … Continue Reading
10.21.21
Democrats’ Steps Toward Socialized Medicine Would Cost Some Americans their Coverage, Others their Lives
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding Democrats' reckless tax and spending spree: "There's little confusion about the devastating economic impacts Democrats would bring about by ramming through their reckless taxing and spending spree: more taxes, more debt, and more painful inflation. "But this isn't some collection of well-intentioned policies whose price tag has just gotten dangerously out … Continue Reading
10.20.21
Democrats Preparing Anti-Energy Policies as Americans’ Heating Bills Are Set to Soar
U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding Democrats' reckless tax and spending spree: "The federal government's own analysts of the energy sector are predicting that this winter, American families could face home heating bills that are 54% higher than last year. "On average, the price for households running on natural gas is expected to jump 30%. For homes that use propane, a different assessment says the forecast l… Continue Reading
10.19.21
Democrats Planning Historic Tax Hikes That Would Hit the Middle Class
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding Democrats' reckless tax and spending spree: "Every day, American families are feeling real pain because of the reckless and inflationary policies that Democrats have already rammed through. "The American people are facing the highest inflation in more than ten years. They're paying an extra dollar a gallon at the pump and soaring prices at the grocery stor… Continue Reading
10.07.21
Senate Moving Toward McConnell Pathway to Prevent Default
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding the debt limit: "Republican and Democratic members and staff have negotiated through the night in good faith. The Senate is moving toward the path I laid out yesterday to spare the American people a manufactured crisis. "All year, the Democratic government has made unprecedented and repeated use of reconciliation to pass radical policies on party-line vote… Continue Reading
10.06.21
Democrats’ Historic Tax Hikes and IRS Spying Would Hurt American Workers and Help China
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding Democrats' reckless tax and spending spree: "President Biden makes two claims about the reckless taxing and spending spree that Democrats are writing behind closed doors. He is saying it costs zero dollars… and that he needs massive tax hikes to pay for it. "Talk about magical Washington math! If they embark on a Washington spending binge, as long a… Continue Reading
10.05.21
Democrats’ Reckless Tax and Spending Spree Would Jeopardize Medicare and Reduce New Medicines
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding Democrats' reckless tax and spending spree: "While the American people are battling inflation at its worst since 2008, Washington Democrats are behind closed doors writing another reckless taxing and spending spree that would have the government borrow and print trillions upon trillions more. "While our economy still struggles to fully recover from last ye… Continue Reading
10.04.21
Inflation Effectively Cutting Americans’ Pay While Democrats Plot More Spending
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding Democrats' reckless tax and spending spree: "Speaking of Democrats' reckless taxing and spending - "This unified government is behind closed doors brainstorming ways to make inflation even more painful for American families. "Their next reckless taxing and spending spree is packed with radical, left-wing policies and the biggest tax hike on the American p… Continue Reading
09.29.21
A Tidal Wave of Tax Hikes and New IRS Snooping
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding Democrats' reckless tax and spending spree: "The American people continue to hear about a steady stream of bad ideas that Washington Democrats are packing into their next reckless taxing and spending spree. There's one clear thread that ties them all together: "Pain for American families, and profit for our adversaries. "Hurting families and helping China… Continue Reading
09.28.21
Democrats Won’t Get Bipartisan Help Paving their Path toward Partisan Recklessness
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding the debt limit: "Yesterday, Senate Democrats blocked a vote on clean government funding legislation. "Senator Shelby and I put forward legislation that could pass the Senate easily and keep the government open. We were ready to avoid a shutdown… get urgent relief to Louisiana… help vetted Afghans who helped America… and continue suppor… Continue Reading
09.22.21
Inflation Already Hammering Families as Democrats Plot Yet Another Reckless Spending Spree
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding inflation: "Over the past several months, American families have had to contend with an historic amount of painful inflation. "This summer we saw the prices for core personal consumption soar at the fastest pace in nearly 30 years. Last month, the producer price index notched its steepest year-on-year jump in more than a decade. "Across the country, acros… Continue Reading
09.21.21
Democrats’ Historic Tax Hikes Would Hurt Families and Help China
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding Democrats' tax hikes: "A senior House Democrat told us in March 2020 that COVID presented, 'a tremendous opportunity to restructure things to fit our vision.' "President Biden said last week that while 'this pandemic has been godawful for so many reasons… it does present us with an opportunity.' "The reckless taxing and spending spree that Washingt… Continue Reading
09.20.21
Democrats’ Reckless Taxing and Spending Spree Meant to Turn Temporary Pandemic into Permanent Socialism
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding the Democrats' reckless tax and spending spree: "Over the past year and a half, senior Democratic leaders decided the upheaval and hardship of a once-in-a-century pandemic was really a chance to justify radical, left-wing change. "This isn't me conjecturing. It's what they keep saying. "Right at the start of the crisis, March 2020, the House Democratic Wh… Continue Reading
09.20.21
As Democrats Go It Alone on Reckless Borrowing, They Will Need to Handle Debt Limit Alone
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding the Democrats' reckless tax and spending spree: "Democrats have unified control of the Senate, the House, and the White House. Their strategy for all this 'transformational' borrowing, spending, and tax hikes was deliberately designed to include no Republican input and receive no Republican votes. "Since Democrats decided to go it alone, they will not get … Continue Reading
09.14.21
Democrats Won’t Get Bipartisan Cover for Radical, Reckless, and Partisan Spending
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding the Democrats' reckless tax and spending spree: "Quote: 'I do think we're in very serious danger of repeating almost all the mistakes of the 1960s and early 1970s.' That's Larry Summers, a senior advisor to two Democratic presidents, about the risks of inflation we face today. "As one report explained, quote, 'The former Treasury secretary has been warning… Continue Reading
09.13.21
Washington Democrats Push for Job-Killing Tax Hikes That Will Hurt American Workers
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding the Democrats' reckless tax and spending spree: "The international stage isn't the only area where Biden Administration policies have caused damage that was both foreseeable and foreseen. "Back in the springtime, Washington Democrats dumped trillions of dollars in liberal borrowing and spending onto the American people. "They pretended it was a COVID reli… Continue Reading
04.21.21
Biden Administration’s “Infrastructure” Bill is a Patchwork of Left-Wing Social Engineering
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding infrastructure: "Early on, a major theme of the Biden Administration has been false advertising. "We have the so-called 'COVID relief bill' that broke a long bipartisan streak on pandemic response and only spent 1% of the money on vaccinations. "We have the reintroduction of a sprawling election takeover bill that Democrats wrote years ago under the guis… Continue Reading
10.23.19
Democrats Want Middle-Class Families To Subsidize Blue-State Millionaires
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding Democrats' effort to undermine tax reform for families across the country: "Today, Democrats here in the Senate will push forward their own resolution. It seeks to undermine part of the historic tax reform law we passed in 2017. "Remember, back then, Washington Democrats were downright hysterical about our plan to let working Americans send less of their pay… Continue Reading
07.18.19
Far-Left Agenda Would Harm Vulnerable Communities Just As Republican Agenda Is Helping Them Rebuild
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks on the Senate floor regarding the benefits Americans continue to see from the Republican pro-opportunity, pro-growth agenda: "Earlier this week, I spoke about the economic pain that many Americans felt under the last administration's left-wing policies -- and all the Trump Administration and Republicans in Congress have done to turn the page. Today, we see the lowest unemployment in nearly 50 y… Continue Reading
07.16.19
A Pro-Worker, Pro-Family, Pro-Opportunity Economic Moment
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks on the Senate floor regarding the benefits Americans continue to see from the Republican pro-opportunity, pro-growth agenda: "Economic data continue to confirm what we've been hearing from American workers and job creators for two years now: This is a pro-worker, pro-family, pro-opportunity economic moment. Hardly a day goes by without new headlines highlighting the new prosperity in communiti… Continue Reading
