Build Back Better Act

Floor Speech

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Mr. MEUSER. Mr. Speaker, I thank my friend, the esteemed gentleman from Texas very much.

Mr. Speaker, this break business' backs bill is the latest iteration of an upside-down--in fact, inverted--economic agenda, ignoring today's problems and doubling down on what we see are failed policies.

What is in this partisan reconciliation bill says more about Democrat's Big Government agenda than people's actual needs, and it will exacerbate challenges currently facing working families and small businesses. It is an $80,000 tax break for wealthy individuals and $400 billion tax hike on small businesses, with a total of $800 billion in new taxes. That is a fact.

It subsidizes green energy but it has a new tax on natural gas, making heating your home more expensive. That is a fact.

It disincentivizes work with new unaccountable entitlements while business owners are desperate to fill nearly 10 million jobs. It will increase costs on domestic businesses and manufacturers and make products overseas more attractive. And it is big spending that everyone agrees is not paid for; will increase debt to somewhere in the neighborhood of--I don't know, what is the debt ceiling request going to be?--$34-, $35-, $36 trillion on something that was said was going to cost zero? Decrease GDP, reduces wage growth, and drives inflation higher. We need to make our country better not make government bigger.

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