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Democrats insisted on passing a $2 trillion so-called "stimulus," despite bipartisan warnings about inflation.
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Ahead of the latest inflation report showing that prices surged by 8.5 percent, Republican Leader on the Ways and Means Committee Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) examined the key ways Democrats worsened inflation, and how higher prices land on American families and small businesses on CNBC’s Squawk Box.
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Unfortunately, taxpayers may have to wait longer for their tax filings to get processed after filing by Tax Day, as a result of President Biden’s historic IRS backlog of millions of outstanding tax returns.
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“Inflation is raging and getting worse
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Prices are growing three times faster than Americans’ paychecks, and are hammering small businesses struggling to find workers, said Republican Leader of the Ways and Means Committee Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) on The National Desk, warning that a wage-price spiral is pushing the economy towards a recession.
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We can lower the price of insulin for seniors and workers together, Democrats insist on their way or the highway
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Recklessly Expand Medicare: Push Medicare towards insolvency, including new behavioral health and community health services with no reforms to save this important program from going broke and failing 62 million beneficiaries as well as those near retirement.
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Biden’s tax hike would destroy at least 138,000 jobs and slash workers’ wages
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For more than 60 percent of working families, their incomes simply can’t keep up rising costs, according to a recent poll by NBC News.
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“Rather than fix the problem, Democrats are bizarrely sticking with Build Back Better tax hikes that will push prices on families even higher.”
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American households are paying $5,200 extra in inflation this year to purchase the same basket of goods as last year, thanks to President Biden and Democrats’ policies.
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Top Republican on Trade Subcommittee urges Biden Administration to pursue new trade agreements to sell American
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Praise continues to roll in following the House’s passage of the Securing a Strong Retirement (SECURE 2.0) Act of 2022.
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While American budgets are straining under inflation that accelerated after Democrats’ reckless spending spree, Ways and Means Republican Rep. Lloyd Smucker (R-PA) warns in an op-ed that President Biden’s budget calls for even more dangerous spending that will only push prices higher.
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After the Federal Reserve’s preferred measure of inflation had the highest annual increase in nearly 40 years–up 6.4 percent from the year previous–Ways and Means Republican Leader Kevin Brady.
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A new analysis from the San Francisco Fed finds that U.S. core inflation is higher than other nations – and attributes a part of it to President Biden’s decision to continue unemployment bonuses and government stimulus after the pandemic receded.
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Today, the House of Representatives will take up the bipartisan SECURE 2.0 bill, legislation that will strengthen Americans’ retirement savings.
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Amid 40-year high inflation, President Biden is doubling down on crippling tax hikes, this time with a scheme that taxes unrealized gains.As put succinctly by Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV): “You can’t be taxed on things you don’t have.” And yet that’s exactly what President Biden wants to do.According to a recent poll, the vast majority of Americans oppose Biden’s tax hike.
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“This will make inflation worse.
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Passed successfully today through the House of Representatives, the Securing a Strong Retirement (SECURE 2.0) Act of 2022, introduced in the Ways and Means Committee with bipartisan support by Ways and Means Republican Leader Kevin Brady