On 7/13/2022, at a Senate Republican press conference, Senator James Lankford said, “This past weekend, I was sitting in my living room for a moment, and I was going through a box that my mom had actually packed almost 50 years ago, I guess now. I was going through this box, and in this box she had random items that were in it, and one of them was a newspaper actually from the late 1970s. So as I’m going through this box of some things that are 60 years old, some things 50 years old, I run into this on that’s just over 40 years old. And as I pull out this newspaper, I start just flipping through it to see what were the stories at the time. And one of the stories there was about Jimmy Carter, meeting with the Saudis to talk about them increasing oil production to try to bring down the price of oil and increase access in the United States.
And as I read that story, all I could think is: history is repeating itself. Literally on the weekend before I’m watching Joe Biden travel to Saudi Arabia to go meet with them about increasing oil production and to try to bring down prices in America, I’m reading a story of Jimmy Carter doing the exact same thing in the 1970s. This is the Biden economy. This economy that we have right now of 9.1 percent inflation is directly tied to the Democrat policies and the things that they have passed in the past year that have dramatically increased the prices on Americans. While they talk about their benevolence—they’re going to go ‘help’ everyone—they’re actually pushing prices up on everyone right now. And we continue to deal with energy issues now, just like we did during the Carter Administration then. These are policy decisions that have been made that are affecting people in my neighborhood, in my state, in my county, and the cities in my state.
The newest estimate for Oklahoma is each family is paying $7,198 more this year for the exact same products they were buying last year–$7,198.
Wages have not gone up for families in my state $7,198. They’re falling farther and farther behind directly because of the policies that have been put in place by this Administration. And now to answer that. This Administration’s saying, ‘Our solution to inflation is going to be: increase taxes.’ But their confidence is, ‘Well we’re only going to increase taxes on some Americans.’ Listen, if you’re a business, and you’re dealing with nine percent inflation, and then you’re also tacked on, let’s say, a 3.8 percent tax, where does that go? It goes to higher prices. And it literally drives the inflation even higher. So their quote-unquote ‘solution’ for inflation of raising taxes is actually going to increase prices once again.
On 7/13/2022, at House GOP Leadership Press Conference, on Democrats refusing to work with Republicans to reverse their self-made crises, House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) said, “But, he’s the one who raised these prices. He’s the reason we have this record high inflation, and he won’t reverse course. [President] Biden will not work with House Republicans to fix these problems. And we’ve laid out a series of solutions, and he won’t meet with us. Look at the agenda this week. Look at the agenda before we left for July 4th. They won’t bring any bills to solve any of these problems.
On dismal approval numbers for Democrats: “That’s why when you look at polling that just came out today, 64 percent of Democrats don’t want Joe Biden to be the Democrat nominee for President in 2024. They’re running away from him. But they won’t work with us to fix these problems. And that’s where Speaker Pelosi has failed because she continues to double down on the far-left agenda, using the House Floor to carry out a real far-left, radical socialist agenda rather than working with us to solve real problems that are hurting [and] crushing hardworking, low-income families.
“So, we stand ready to fix these problems. When we’re in the majority, we will work to fix these problems. But in the meantime, we’re going to continue to call on [President] Biden to meet his promise to do better, and he’s failed the American people at that. And unfortunately, they’re the ones who are paying the price.”
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Lankford: my mom newspaper Jimmy Carter to Saudi. Scalise: inflation Dem no solution.