[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 2 (Tuesday, January 4, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S20]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                          Biden Administration

  Mr. President, on a related matter, fortunately for the country, 
before Christmas, one of those far-left distractions was dealt a 
setback. The Democrats' wasteful spending last spring helped ignite the 
worst inflation in 40 years, but our colleagues spent the rest of 2021 
trying to assemble yet another even bigger, even more reckless tax-and-
spending spree. Their reaction to rising prices and family hardships 
their policies caused was to try to inflate their way out of inflation.
  The experts say that when you strip away the budget gimmick, their 
proposal would cost almost $5 trillion. And all of that reckless 
borrowing and money-printing was for far-left policies that would hurt 
American families and actually help China.
  The supposedly ``green'' subsidies would just dump money in China-
dominated supply chains. America takes on massive debt to ``Build Back 
Beijing.''
  The childcare plan was actually an unworkable and discriminatory 
toddler takeover that would drive up daycare costs and let woke 
bureaucrats drive out faith-based providers. They even wanted to 
distort American parents' child tax credit and turn it into an old-
school cash welfare program with no work requirements at all--now, all 
of this paired with historic, crushing tax hikes and trillions more 
dollars to make inflation even worse.
  It was a merrier Christmas for American families because this awful 
bill was actually put aside. Working Americans need it to actually stay 
on the shelf.