WASHINGTON – Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) today spoke with members of the media about the Democrats’ Reckless Tax and Spend bill. GRAHAM: “This reconciliation bill is a fraud. It’s going to be pouring gasoline on the inflation problems we have in the country and it rewards special interests at the […]
WASHINGTON – Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) today made this statement on Democrats’ touting a sweetheart union deal in the form of an additional $4,500 tax credit for people who buy electric vehicles made by unions, which they hope to include in the reckless taxing and spending bill. “Electric cars have […]
WASHINGTON – While the Biden administration and Congressional Democrats continue to haggle over the size of their reckless taxing and spending bill, new estimates show that Democrats are using budget gimmicks to hide the real price tag. New budget models from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business show that the taxing and spending […]
WASHINGTON – Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) today made this statement after Senator Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia) expressed concerns over House Democrats trying to vote on their Reckless Taxing and Spending bill without knowing the true cost of the bill. “To my House Democratic colleagues: I hope you understand that without […]
WASHINGTON – Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) today made these comments on raising the debt ceiling. GRAHAM: “I don’t understand why we [Republicans] are folding here. For two months Republicans have been saying Democrats want to spend $3.5 trillion without any Republican input. If they are going to do that — they need […]
WASHINGTON – Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) today made this statement. “I worked with my Democratic colleagues to spend trillions of dollars to fight COVID because it was necessary. I worked with my Democratic colleagues to produce an infrastructure bill dealing with America’s roads, bridges, ports, and other vital infrastructure because […]
WASHINGTON – Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) today made this statement on the Senate Parliamentarian’s guidance that will not allow Democrats’ to grant legal status to illegal immigrants in their massive tax and spend bill. “I’m very glad to hear that the Parliamentarian provided guidance to the Senate that granting legal […]
WASHINGTON – Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) today introduced an amendment to the Democrats’ fiscal year 2022 budget resolution to improve our broken asylum system. “The asylum system is being abused. This wave of illegal immigration will never stop unless we fix our laws. “Hundreds of thousands of people are flocking to the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 of the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
WASHINGTON – Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) today made this statement after he voted against Senate Democrats’ $1.9 trillion liberal wish list. After a lengthy vote-a-rama series, the legislation passed 50-49 without a single Republican vote. “Ninety percent of what’s in this bill has nothing to do with COVID. It is a […]
WASHINGTON – Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) introduced an amendment to end The American Rescue Plan Act’s bailout of failed policies and fiscally irresponsible states. The Graham amendment reverts back to the formula used in the CARES Act to distribute aid to states, which passed the Senate by a vote of 96-0 […]
WASHINGTON – Today, Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) spoke on the Senate floor about the Democrats’ so-called COVID-19 relief bill noting it is a liberal wish list that is filled with partisan priorities. On Democrats abandoning bipartisanship: GRAHAM: “[Democrats] now have power of the federal government, complete power. Control of the Senate, […]
WASHINGTON – Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) today made this statement on the Senate Parliamentarian ruling that Democrats’ proposal to increase the federal minimum wage is an inappropriate policy change in reconciliation. “Very pleased the Senate Parliamentarian has ruled that a minimum wage increase is an inappropriate policy change in reconciliation. This […]
WASHINGTON – Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) today questioned witnesses on finding a way to raise the federal minimum wage without losing jobs or hurting small businesses. Graham invited Greenville, South Carolina restaurant owner Carl Sobocinski to share his experience with working in and owning several restaurants. Graham also invited Dr. Douglas […]
WASHINGTON – Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) today questioned Ms. Neera Tanden, President Biden’s nominee to serve as Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). IMMIGRATION: GRAHAM: “Here’s what’s happened, thus far in the first three weeks of the [Biden Administration]. We stopped building the wall. We’ve halted deportations. We canceled […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham’s (R-South Carolina) amendment to the Senate budget resolution calling for strengthening and protecting the ‘Remain in Mexico’ program was defeated by a vote of 50-50. The ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy was adopted by former President Trump and has proven to be successful in taking pressure off our southern border. Before […]
WASHINGTON – Today, Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) discussed the Senate Budget Resolution ahead of a series of amendment votes. GRAHAM: “Most small businesses in South Carolina and throughout the country have been struggling to stay open due to lack of travel, due to mandates at the state and local level reducing […]
WASHINGTON – Yesterday, incoming Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) reacted to the Democrats’ budget resolution on the Senate floor. On Congress and the Administration working together on COVID relief: GRAHAM: “Here’s what I want the American people to know. We’ve done a lot together [already]. And of the $4 trillion we’ve appropriated, to […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The United States Senate this week approved Senate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi (R-WY) and Senator Mark Warner’s (D-VA) legislation, the CFO Vision Act of 2020, S. 3287, to strengthen federal financial management. The bipartisan bill would update the Chief Financial Officers (CFO) Act of 1990. That law established a financial management […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY), Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, challenged Congress to come together to fix America’s broken budget process and address the fiscal challenges facing our nation. During Enzi’s time leading the Budget Committee, both have been priorities. Enzi was able to reform the Senate Budget Committee’s rules, which […]