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Emblematic of the Biden Administration’s misplaced priorities, the President’s budget does not once make mention of an “inflation crisis”, “debt crisis”, “border security”, or “parents” while using the term “climate crisis” 33 times and the terms “tax,” “fee,” and “penalty” over 120 times.
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics February Job Opening and Labor Turnover (JOLTS) Survey today showed President Biden’s worker shortage remains near historic highs with more than 11 million job openings.
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More than half of Americans worry a great deal about inflation and the economy, leading most other issues: Inflation emerges as a leading public concern, with 59 percent saying they worry about it “a great deal.”
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Republican Leader of the Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee Rep. Adrian Smith (R-NE) delivered remarks during a full committee hearing with U.S. Trade
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For the past year, even with paychecks increasing, workers have earned less and paid more for everything from rent to gas for their car, according to a new analysis by the Urban Institute.
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The Biden Administration’s Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently proposed new, unjustified restrictions that limit access to new treatments for up to six million American patients, and would go even further with its “Fewer Cures Agenda.”
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“Instead of promoting American innovation and helping the nearly 6 million Americans suffering from Alzheimer’s utilizing the newest available treatments, CMS effectively prohibited access through their overly prescriptive Coverage with Evidence Determination.
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A new report from the Heritage Foundation shows that the benefits of the 1996 bipartisan welfare reform have persisted decades after its passage, with children today half as likely to live in families below the poverty threshold.
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Warning against the Biden Administration’s decision to limit coverage for a new Alzheimer’s treatment, Republican Leader on the Ways and Means Committee Rep. Kevin Brady
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This comes after the Biden Administration’s recent guidance granting blanket waivers to allow states to waive suspicious overpayments.
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After Congress suspended trade relations with Russia and Belarus,, Republican Leader on the Ways and Means Committee Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) appeared on the Ben Shapiro Show to discuss the importance of leading the world in holding Russia accountable.
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As the Biden Administration prepares to release its FY 2023 budget several months late, Americans are still suffering from the impact of his FY 2022 budget, which stoked inflation, ignored the IRS backlog, and slowed America’s economic recovery.
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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen for answers on how the Biden administration and its new Task Force KleptoCapture will enforce new sanctions against the Russian Federation and its leaders and how the Treasury Department will hold Russia accountable.
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Rep. Brady urged his colleagues to address mental health by fighting the rise of opioid and other substance abuse, making access to telehealth permanent, and working to get Americans off the sidelines to ensure a strong economic recovery.
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With inflation at a 40-year high, economists are sounding the alarm that the U.S. is heading for a recession. Despite President Biden’s past claims that inflation is “transitory,” an “upper class problem,” and something that could simply be solved if businesses charged customers less, price increases continue to hammer working families.
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The Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that February’s unemployment report accelerated amidst rising prices and decreasing wages. Nonfarm payrolls for the month grew by 678,000 and the unemployment rate was 3.8 percent.
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Ways and Means Republicans urged the Administration and IRS Commissioner Rettig for over a year to address the backlog, while Democrats and President Biden instead sought over $80 billion in government spending to spy on personal transactions and turn local banks into branches of the IRS.
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With inflation at a 40-year high and wiping away three years worth of workers’ wage gains, economic experts – including those preferred by the White House – are skeptical of Democrats’ scramble to reverse rising prices by passing “chunks” of the President’s $5 trillion tax-and-spend bill.
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President Biden’s tax hikes have been looming over small businesses for over a year now, and will drive inflation further – ultimately landing on Main Street job creators and their workers, Republican Leader on the Ways and Means Committee Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) warned on “Mornings with Maria” on Fox Business and Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power.”
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Opening a Select Revenue Measures subcommittee hearing on “The Economic Impact of Federal Infrastructure Investment,” top subcommittee Republican Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA) expressed disappointment with Democrats’ continued emphasis of partisanship over real infrastructure spending: “Americans need real infrastructure investment, not trillions of dollars in more reckless spending.