{"id":128962,"date":"2022-08-09T08:15:32","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T12:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=128962"},"modified":"2022-08-08T20:37:49","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T00:37:49","slug":"senate-passes-monster-spending-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=128962","title":{"rendered":"Senate passes monster spending bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/tax.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-123844\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/tax-300x218.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/tax-300x218.png 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/tax.png 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Senate passed the Inflation Reduction Act bill on a 51-50 vote. None of the Republicans supported the bill; Kamala Harris responded by casting the tie-breaking vote. The bill goes to the House for consideration. This bill has a provision that would increase taxes for those making less than $400,000 a year.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><b>From Fox News:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a statement, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, likened the bill to a &#8220;give-away to the Democrats&#8217; radical leftist base at the expense of middle-class Americans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Schumer-Manchin bill will drive up inflation and prices, hammer small businesses and American manufacturing, increase the price of gas, and sic the IRS on Americans, all while raising taxes on Americans in nearly every tax bracket including those who make less than $400,000 a year,&#8221; Cruz said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., called raising taxes during both a recession and inflation &#8220;a special kind of stupid.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[T]hat&#8217;s called stagflation, which is what we have right now as a result of President Biden&#8217;s policies,&#8221; Kennedy tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., likewise admonished Democrats for passing a bill during a recession and when inflation is at a 41-year-high.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We should be cutting taxes, not increasing them,&#8221; Blackburn said in a Twitter thread. &#8220;It is a shame the Senate Democrats have forced through a socialist agenda that will make life more difficult and expensive for Tennesseans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., accused Democrats not caring about &#8220;middle-class families&#8217; priorities.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fox News has the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/gop-dems-pay-price-midterms-passing-massive-spending-bill\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate passed the Inflation Reduction Act bill on a 51-50 vote. None of the Republicans &hellip; <a title=\"Senate passes monster spending bill\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=128962\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Senate passes monster spending bill<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[472,142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}