[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 142 (Saturday, August 7, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S5994]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           GOVERNMENT FUNDING

  Mr. McCONNELL. The Democratic leader is indicating, in a few days, he 
will thrust the Senate into an ultrapartisan showdown over the 
staggeringly reckless taxing-and-spending spree that Democrats want to 
ram through later this year.
  The size and the scope of Chairman Sanders' socialist shopping list 
will make every disagreement we had in landing the infrastructure 
compromise look like a rounding error--new permanent welfare with no 
work requirements, reams of Green New Deal mandates, massive tax hikes 
that shrink wages and kill jobs, government meddling in childcare that 
would privilege certain families' choices over others, amnesty for 
illegal immigrants in the middle of a border crisis.
  At a time Democrats' spending already--already--has inflation 
hammering American families, Republicans could not be more eager to 
debate our colleagues on all of these subjects. We can't wait to get 
Democrats on record over many more trillions--trillions--of dollars and 
reckless borrowing to fund socialist spending on radical policies that 
families are not asking for.
  Our philosophy is the polar opposite. Republican policies would 
create good jobs, strong wage growth, and stable prices for middle-
class families, just like our country had just a year and a half ago--
the most pro-worker economy in a generation, just a year and a half 
ago.
  Republicans want to give working families the tools and the 
opportunity to build the lives that they want. Democrats want to force 
them to live the lives the Democrats want.
  The stakes in this debate could not be higher, and very soon the 
country will see it aired out here right on the Senate floor.
  The Democratic leader will be putting the full radicalism of the far 
left right here on this floor. He is making every one of his Members 
vote on nothing less--nothing less--than Chairman Sanders' dream 
shopping list. Every American family will know exactly where their 
Senator stands

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