United States House Committee On Ways And Means
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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.
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“We cannot tax and spend our way to prosperity,” top Republican on the Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee Rep. Adrian Smith (R-NE) writes in an op-ed, emphasizing that while less than 10 percent of Democrats’ recent reckless government spending actually went towards COVID-related measures, American families are paying the price with inflation and shrinking wages.
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Democrats are once again considering crippling tax hikes, which will fall on American families making less than $400,000 a year and Main Street businesses.
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With inflation climbing to the highest levels since 1982, Republican Leader of the Ways and Means Committee Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) issued the following statement
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The Biden Administration’s trade moratorium undermines U.S. trade leadership and hands our competitors a dangerous opportunity to get ahead, Ways and Means Republicans Reps. Carol Miller (R-WV) and Darin LaHood (R-IL) warn in an op-ed for The Hill.
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“By withdrawing his illegal vaccine mandate, President Biden is admitting that it is a failure that has only resulted in worsening the labor shortage and politicizing vaccines.
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“This bill proves what everyone knows. Democrats in Congress aren’t serious about confronting China, holding them accountable for their trade commitments, or insisting China stop cheating America and other countries.
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Democrats have wiped out three years of wage gains for average Americans through inflation. Working families are watching their budgets shrink and prices climb.
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With over 10 million job openings left without workers, President Biden is breaking his jobs promises and small business owners are desperate.
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Experts predicted 2021 would be a banner year for America’s economy.
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“Each of these deeply talented and qualified Republican leaders are well-positioned to fight for greater opportunities for workers, families, and small business owners across the country.
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As working families watch their budgets shrink and prices climb, the Biden Administration is attempting to pass the buck for their own incompetence.
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Top Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement on the U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down the Biden Administration’s vaccine mandate for large employers:
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Within his first year of office, President Biden has overseen $6 trillion in spending – and not a dime was spent to help the IRS address a historically long and painful backlogs or political targeting.
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President Biden’s Washington-controlled subsidized child care will leave American families facing higher costs, less access to affordable care, and fewer choices.
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With the omicron variant causing a spike in COVID-19 cases, Ways and Means Health Subcommittee member Rep. Brad Wenstrup, D.P.M, (R-OH) outlined the need for clear, patient-focused communication between Americans and their doctors, instead of one–size-fits-all mandates from Washington, D.C.