The ‘Moore’ You Know

On his first day in office, President Biden cancelled the Keystone XL pipeline – and the 11,000 American jobs that came with it. Apparently, pipelines – which every American depends on and will for the foreseeable future – are bad to Biden. Yet one of his foreign policy priorities has been greasing the wheels for Russia to build a pipeline of its own.

On top of that, Biden has done all he can to end domestic energy production on federal lands. Anyone with a basic understanding of economics would think that would drive prices up, and that’s exactly what happened. But instead of rethinking his policies, Biden asked OPEC to ramp up production to ease high prices. Where is the logic?

This week, if you filled up your tank in Troy, you would pay a whopping $3.29 per gallon for gas, and it’s about the same throughout our district. At these prices, the average Alabamian will pay about $23 more each week on gasoline than a year ago. That’s more than $100 more each month, and almost $1,200 more a year.

But President Biden is doubling down on his bad policies that are hammering American families. The reconciliation bill at the center of his socialist tax-and-spend agenda even includes an energy tax for heating your home.

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That’s not all that is in this reconciliation bill. This legislation, the most radical far-Left socialist piece of legislation in American history, would weaponize the IRS, grant mass amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants, and create a “Made in America” tax.

Additionally, this bill:

• Does not include the Hyde Amendment, allowing taxpayer dollars to be used to fund on- demand abortions,

• Perpetuates labor shortages by eliminating work requirements to receive welfare benefits for able bodied adults,

• Expands Obamacare subsidies through 2025, overwhelmingly benefiting wealthier Americans and subsidizing people who already have insurance,

• Unnecessarily expands Medicare benefits at a time when the program is going broke, ultimately harming choices for our seniors,

• Includes a Civilian Climate Corps that would employ thousands of young people to work on climate-change mitigation projects,

• Provides fake news organizations with up to 750 employees to get a tax cut at a time when their readership has declined due to their liberal bias,

• Adds over $400 billion in small business tax hikes, and,

• Turns the Child Tax Credit (CTC) into a permanent cash for kids welfare without work program.

Put simply, this bill does nothing to address the numerous crises facing America. Instead, it will only worsen them.

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Sadly, Democrats’ focus on their radical agenda is getting in the way of the work Congress is supposed to be doing.

Just last week, the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity was set to hold a field hearing in Enterprise to highlight and analyze the resources available to servicemembers when transitioning into civilian life. Unfortunately, this field hearing was cancelled by Democratic Leadership less than 24 hours before the hearing because of Speaker Pelosi’s threat to make the House vote over the weekend on President Biden’s tax-and-spend agenda.

This decision was made without my input, and it’s a real shame for our servicemembers and veterans. What makes it even more infuriating is that the House ended up casting its last vote of the week later that night, so the hearing the next day would not have been impacted.

Despite the Democrats’ misplaced priorities, I won’t lose focus on working hard for our veterans and servicemembers – and all the Alabamians I serve.

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