Graham Hammers Democrats’ Reckless $4.2 Trillion Tax and Spend Spree Ahead of Vote-A-Rama
WASHINGTON – Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) today spoke on the Senate floor ahead of the “vote-a-rama” on the Democrats’ fiscal year 2022 budget resolution, which paves the way for more government, more taxes and higher prices. GRAHAM: “The question I have for my Democratic colleagues: how much will gas prices go up […]
Notes on the Democrats’ Reckless Tax and Spend Spree: FY 2022 Budget Resolution
For the second time this year, the Democrat Majority is bypassing the Budget Committee to vote on a budget resolution. This time it is to allow for a $3.5 trillion spending spree. This plan, arriving just a few months after Democrats added $2 trillion to the debt by passing a liberal wish list without a […]
Graham Statement on Senate Democrats’ $3.5 Trillion Tax and Spend Plan
WASHINGTON – Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) today made this statement on Senate Democrats agreeing to a $3.5 trillion reconciliation price tag for their fiscal year 2022 budget resolution. If passed, the budget resolution will pave the way for liberal Democrats to raise taxes, spend recklessly and further damage our economy. […]
Graham on Biden Budget: “This tax and spend budget will break the back of our economy.”
WASHINGTON – Today, Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) made an opening statement at a hearing on President Biden’s Fiscal Year 2022 budget proposal. • GRAHAM: “This budget I think is blind to the world in which we live in, in terms of military threats. It has an approach to the role […]
Fast Facts on the Impacts of the Biden Budget
On May 28, 2021, President Biden released his first budget, which focuses on new spending proposals while shortchanging America’s national defense and ignoring our government’s massive overspending and more than $28 trillion in national debt. Fast Facts on the Impacts of the Biden Budget over the Next 10 Years The Biden Budget sets a new […]
Senate Budget Ranking Member Graham on President Biden’s Budget
WASHINGTON – Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) today made this statement on President Biden’s budget for Fiscal Year 2022. “President Biden’s budget is dead on arrival – just like all other presidential budgets. “It is insanely expensive. It dramatically increases nondefense spending and taxes. Over time it will result in a weakened Department of […]
CBO to Budget Ranking Member Graham: Democrats’ Spending Spree Shatters Previous Deficit, Debt Outlook
WASHINGTON – Recently Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) wrote to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) asking for the budgetary impact of enacting the American Rescue Plan Act and the types of additional spending increases proposed by President Biden, as compared to CBO’s February 2021 projections. CBO found that over the next decade, […]
McConnell, Inhofe, Rubio, Graham, and Shelby Statement on Biden’s Disappointing Defense Budget
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Senate Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Vice Chairman Marco Rubio (R-FL), Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and Senate Appropriations Committee Vice Chairman Richard Shelby (R-AL) issued the following joint statement regarding the Biden Administration’s Fiscal Year […]
Graham: Dems’ “Insatiable Desire” to Raise Taxes Will Ruin the Country
WASHINGTON – Today, Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) gave an opening statement at a hearing on the state of the U.S. tax code, in response to Democrats’ plans to raise taxes and implement other liberal tax policies. GRAHAM: “I want everybody in South Carolina to know that if Senator Sanders gets his way, […]
Graham: “I Could Not Disagree More” with Nominee for Deputy OMB Director’s Statement on Hyde Amendment
WASHINGTON – Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) today voted in committee to advance Shalanda Young’s nomination for Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget, but would withhold final support on the Senate floor until Ms. Young answers a follow up question regarding her position on the Hyde Amendment. “I voted […]