Government Funding

Floor Speech

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Mr. McCONNELL. The Democratic leader is indicating, in a few days, he will thrust the Senate into an ultrapartisan showdown over the staggeringly reckless taxing-and-spending spree that Democrats want to ram through later this year.

The size and the scope of Chairman Sanders' socialist shopping list will make every disagreement we had in landing the infrastructure compromise look like a rounding error--new permanent welfare with no work requirements, reams of Green New Deal mandates, massive tax hikes that shrink wages and kill jobs, government meddling in childcare that would privilege certain families' choices over others, amnesty for illegal immigrants in the middle of a border crisis.

At a time Democrats' spending already--already--has inflation hammering American families, Republicans could not be more eager to debate our colleagues on all of these subjects. We can't wait to get Democrats on record over many more trillions--trillions--of dollars and reckless borrowing to fund socialist spending on radical policies that families are not asking for.

Our philosophy is the polar opposite. Republican policies would create good jobs, strong wage growth, and stable prices for middle- class families, just like our country had just a year and a half ago-- the most pro-worker economy in a generation, just a year and a half ago.

Republicans want to give working families the tools and the opportunity to build the lives that they want. Democrats want to force them to live the lives the Democrats want.

The stakes in this debate could not be higher, and very soon the country will see it aired out here right on the Senate floor.

The Democratic leader will be putting the full radicalism of the far left right here on this floor. He is making every one of his Members vote on nothing less--nothing less--than Chairman Sanders' dream shopping list. Every American family will know exactly where their Senator stands

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