On 9/26/2022, Joe Biden delivered remarks at a meeting with the White House Competition Council in the State Dining Room. Biden’s meeting focused on new actions his administration will be taking to save families money and lower costs. “Like many of you, I grew up in a family where when the price of gasoline went up, it was a conversation at the breakfast table — for real!” Biden said. Gas prices were flat during Joe Biden’s childhood.
Joe Biden also claimed that gas is below $3 per gallon in some states. Inflation is at 40-year highs because Joe Biden and the Democrats have spent TRILLIONS of dollars in the last year-and-a-half. Biden spent another $740 billion that he repackaged the “Inflation Reduction Act.” The Democrats actually claimed spending billions of dollars after inflation already passed 8% would help bring costs down. “Because what’s inflation? Inflation is at the end of the month do you have less money from your paycheck or more money from your paycheck,” Biden said.
On 9/23/2022, House Republicans pledged to end soaring inflation and reduce crime by serving as a check on President Biden if they reclaim power — calling the party’s midterm election platform a “Commitment to America.” The “Commitment to America” organizes various pledges under four broad categories: the economy, safety, freedom and accountability. The outline is an attempt to harness the historical success of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s 1994 “Contract with America,” which propelled GOP gains during President Bill Clinton’s first term.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) announced the big-tent framework inside an HVAC manufacturing plant outside Pittsburgh, Pa. “We want to roll [the plan] out to you, to the entire country, to know exactly what we will do if you would trust us and give us the ability to take a new direction for this country,” McCarthy said. Not only did Biden and Democrats cause these problems, but they have no plan to fix it. Republicans do. The House GOP’s Commitment to America will deliver on getting our nation back on track.
The kickoff featured a business-casual Q&A where dozens of GOP legislators took turns fielding questions. The Republicans vowed to rein in government spending to lower the worst inflation in 41 years with consumer prices, “For last year and a half, we’ve gone across the nation listening to Americans,” he continued. “And they’re fearful. They wonder whether they can afford it—can they afford to fill up their gas, can they go to the grocery store again which now costs more?”
House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) said that Republicans will also work to undo Democrats’ recent expansion of the IRS, “Far left policies have led to record spending. When you see bills come out of Congress, it’s not hundreds of billions, but trillions of dollars of borrowed money, new taxes, and 87,000 IRS agents.”
Democrats’ IRS expansion was included as part of the Inflation Reduction Act, which sextupled the IRS’ current budget overnight. The IRS provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act were among its most controversial.
The $80 billion allocated to the agency by the bill sextuples its budget, and Republican critics have warned that the bulked-up IRS could hire as many as 87,000 new agents. These agents, in turn, critics have said, will be let loose against middle-class Americans and small businesses, despite Democrats’ claims about the expansion that nobody making less than $400,000 per year will see their tax bill increase.
No. 3 House Republican Chairwoman Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York said the GOP would be “making sure that we stop the trillions and trillions of reckless government spending that we have seen under Democrat rule.” “That will immediately help lower the cost of goods as we seek to rein in inflation,” she said at the event. Stefanik said, “What I hear from my constituents is people are struggling. Families are struggling to make ends meet. Whether you go to the grocery store, or budgeting for those home heating bills that are skyrocketing this winter, or whether you struggled this past year to fill up your tank of gas. People feel that they’re working harder than ever before, but they’re falling further behind.”
Ranking Member Jim Jordan said the Republicans decided their first bill will seek to nullify an IRS crackdown recently authorized by Democrats, “I thought the Leader said something really profound in his remarks. He said that ‘our job is to work for you, not come after you.’ That is so important: House Republicans are committed to exposing and holding accountable those in our government who have come after ‘We The People.’”
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