11/19/2021 update: House approves Biden’s mammoth spending package, sending bill to Senate.
On 11/18/2021, began at 8:38 p.m. Thursday and finished at 5:11 a.m. Friday 11/19/2021, McCarthy blasts Democrats, stalls Biden bill in over record breaking 8 hours 33 minutes tirade on House floor.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy unleashed a marathon tirade overnight in opposition to Biden’s social spending bill, ranting for more than eight hours on the House floor and breaking a record for the chamber’s longest continuous speech in modern history. McCarthy spoke for 8 hours and 33 minutes and ripped the nearly $2 trillion Build Back Better package as the “single most reckless and irresponsible spending bill in our nation’s history.”
“Never in American history will so many taxes be raised and so much borrowing to be needed to pay for all this reckless spending.” The House GOP leader attacked almost every proposal included in the legislation, which Republicans insist will cause long-term damage to the US economy, before railing against other policies of the Biden administration and calling Democrats “out of touch” with the needs and wishes of ordinary Americans, among the topics McCarthy touched on in his soliloquy were inflation, immigration, the threat of a rising China:
Wharton studied ‘build back broke,’ it “costs $4 trillion” & will “lower our growth, direct correlation to gas prices and Jan. 20 after Biden attack on American energy, Democrats rejected an amendment to prevent religious discrimination, Biden’s reckless budget Dems “promised bill would be paid for and it’s not” , despite record border crisis, Biden budget provides billion dollars in amnesty, Biden budget gives more money to illegal immigrants than American servicemembers, Biden budget does nothing to address border crisis, secure communities, Dems rejected amendment prohibiting funds from going to CCP, warns Dems of the political consequences of voting for this bill, completely deconstructs the democrats’ disastrous build back better agenda.
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Excerpts of McCarthy record breaking 8 hours speech, against tax and social spending bill