Critics are slammed comments made by Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., arguing her complaints about her student loan debt proves federal bailouts would benefit the rich. “I worked full time, Monday through Friday, and took weekend classes to get my law degree. And still, close to $200,000 in debt. And I still owe over $70,000 and most of it was interest,” Tlaib said during oral arguments on the House floor. “And guess what? I didn’t go to the for-profit entities, I went to legal aid, … I went and worked on immigrant rights and so much more,” she continued. Tlaib makes $174,000 a year as a member of Congress.
On 12/1/2021, Senator Marsha Blackburn said, “yesterday, in a hearing before the Senate Banking Committee, the Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell finally confirmed what we have all known for a long time; that the threat of persistently higher inflation has grown and that the risk of more persistent inflation has risen. He acknowledged to the committee that use of the word “transitory” in the media has caused confusion and that it is probably a good time to retire that word and try to explain more clearly what is actually happening with the economy.”
“Now, that is bad news for the spin doctors over in the Biden administration who have spent months trying to convince Tennesseans and the American people that we will be out of the woods any day now, that this is all coming to a fast end. It is back to the drawing board for the White House comms shop. They cannot split hairs over vocabulary words pertaining to inflation. The inflation that we are seeing is real; it is felt; and the consequences of ignoring this are very real.”
“As a Tennessean told me yesterday, ‘I supported President Biden. I thought he was going to be a moderate, and I feel like he became something else immediately.’ … The White House and congressional Democrats must abandon this disastrous Build Back Broke agenda before the possibility of true recovery slips away from us and before the American people lose all faith in those who asked for and then squandered the privilege of leading this country.”
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Sen Blackburn on stop Build Back Broke, confusing word transitory, Rep Tlaib on student debt