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 […]
Graham Statement on Vote Against $1.9 Trillion Liberal Wish List
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 […]
Graham Introduces Amendment to End Blue State Bailouts
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 […]
Graham: Democrats’ So-Called COVID Relief Bill is a Liberal Wish List
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, […]