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Murphy: Democrats Deliver for American Families while Republicans Cut Taxes for the Rich, Play Games with National Security
November 17, 2021
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, on Tuesday delivered remarks on the Senate floor calling out Senate Republicans’ hypocrisy for opposing the Build Back Better Act – which will lower costs for families and create good-paying jobs – while using rising inflation to score political points. Murphy also slammed their refusal to come to the table to negotiate the fiscal year 2022 Homeland Security budget, playing political games with national security and undercutting the Biden administration’s ability to humanely manage the border.
“The Build Back Better agenda, the bill passed with no Republican support is all about reducing costs for average, regular Americans. Reducing the cost of health care, reducing the cost of energy, reducing the cost of child care,” said Murphy.
On Republican opposition to the Build Back Better agenda’s tax increases on billionaires and wealthy corporations while Democrats deliver tax cuts for the average American family, Murphy said: “That's the reason why so many Republicans oppose the Build Back Better agenda is because it's about t***sferring economic power from the haves, from the economic elites, to folks that have been getting the short end of the stick, who have been getting fleeced by this economy. When Republicans had the chance to cut costs, they did it only for billionaires and millionaires. 80% of the Republican tax cut went to the richest 1% or 2% of the economy. When Democrats have control of the Senate, we deliver tax cuts for the middle class and for the poor. We deliver cost reductions for average American families.”
Murphy continued: “Republicans' priorities historically have been to deliver benefits to the wealthy, to the elites, to their corporate friends. And so when faced with a very different agenda, an agenda that is all about cost reduction, tax cuts for average families, for families making $30,000 a year, for plumbers, for teachers, for factory workers, for janitors, not a single Republican v**e.”
If Republicans won’t come to the table to negotiate a Homeland Security budget, Murphy laid out the catastrophic impact that will have on humanely managing the border, cybersecurity, Coast Guard readiness, and national security: “If we don't pass a budget, if we don't update the Appropriations Bill for the Department of Homeland Security, we are going to be gutting our border protection, we are going to be costing the economy billions of dollars, we're going to be compromising the defense of this nation, and we are going to be wasting taxpayer dollars.”
Murphy concluded: “We are sent here to be proper and responsible stewards of our constituents’, our taxpayers' hard-earned dollars. They don't like sending their money to Washington, but they do so under the belief that we are going to be careful about how we spend it. By just extending 2021 spending levels to 2022, especially when it comes to the defense of this nation, especially when it comes to the protection of the borders, a C.R. could be disastrous as much as it is wildly irresponsible.”
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I don't know if you realize this or not but when the Gov. raises taxes on business,' you and I just got a tax raise. That is because those are costs are passed on to us, we the people. I can understand why you wouldn't know this because along with God and Country they kicked Civics out of the class room. I'm sorry for you that your parents didn't raise you to understand life. Mike