Providing for Consideration of Senate Amendment to H.R. Build Back Better Act

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Mrs. FISCHBACH. Mr. Speaker, I just wanted to comment that I do talk to farmers, and what farmers are talking to me about is the incredible costs of their inputs this year. That is what they are talking about.

They are not coming to me about climate change. They are coming to me about the cost it is for them to do business and the inflation they are facing.

Last year, my Democrat colleagues sling-shotted us into record inflation with trillions in reckless spending. Now, they have the audacity to use that very crisis to justify doing it again.

They call this bill the Inflation Reduction Act. In reality, this is just another installation of their tax-and-spend agenda that got us here in the first place.

This time, they are spending $80 billion in funding to send 87,000 new IRS agents to shake loose change from Americans to pay for their spending spree. With this new staff, the IRS will be bigger than the Pentagon, State Department, FBI, and Border Patrol.

This new IRS army will increase audits on individuals by more than 1.2 million, nearly half of which will be on Americans making $75,000 per year or less. You don't have to take my word for it. This is according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.

What do Americans get in return? $3 billion in grants to promote climate justice; $7.5 billion for wealthy families to purchase their next Tesla; $1.3 billion for those same families to boost the sale value of their old Tesla; and $1 billion for electric garbage trucks.

This bill is riddled with provisions that carry the Green New Deal stamp of approval.

This bill is not designed to help the country recover. It is not going to help American families pay for groceries. It is not designed to help American families. It is designed to send an army of IRS agents after low- and middle-income Americans so Democrats can pay for their Green New Deal.

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