Build Back Better Act

Floor Speech

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Mr. McCLINTOCK. Madam Speaker, the latest estimate for the Democrats' build back broke bill is $4.9 trillion. That averages about $40,000 per family over the next decade.

They say it is paid for. Well, by whom?

By you, of course, through direct taxes, tax-driven price increases, and worst of all, inflation.

And what do you get?

Well, amnesty for 7 million illegal aliens. That is the entire population of Alaska, Wyoming, Vermont, Rhode Island, Delaware, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Montana combined.

Now, explain to me how working Americans are helped by flooding the market with low-wage foreign labor.

The trillions of dollars of excess spending by the Democrats has already driven the inflation rate to 6.2 percent and rising. Madam Speaker, that means if you earn $50,000 a year, the Democrats just took $3,100 of that. If you have managed to put $100,000 towards your retirement, the Democrats just took $6,200 of that.

Policy matters. When Republicans reduced the tax and regulatory burdens, we delivered the lowest unemployment rate in 50 years, the lowest poverty rate in 60 years, and the fastest wage growth in 40 years. The Democrats have reversed these policies and reproduced the misery that we are suffering today.

The American people know that we are on the wrong track and that this bill sends us deeper into that cold and bleak winter.

Build back better?

How about put things back the way they were before you broke them, Madam Speaker.

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