Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement after Education and Labor Committee Democrats unveiled their piece of the budget reconciliation scheme:
“Acts of desperation will never yield substantive policy and progress. House Democrats are operating under the impression that their sole imperative for the beginning of the 117th Congress is to spend as quickly as possible $2 trillion of hardworking taxpayers' money by ramming through a partisan, slapdash budget reconciliation scheme so they can achieve their own socialist priorities. While special interests are no doubt poised to reap rewards from budget reconciliation, small businesses, hardworking families, and the great American economy will be brought to their knees.
“This laundry list of left-wing proposals is astounding. From a national $15 minimum wage that would destroy millions of jobs around the country, to the unnecessary and unprecedented expansion of workers' compensation, this isn’t the ‘bold relief’ Americans need. At the end of the day, the facts are clear: House Democrats will stop at nothing to advance their own partisan, hackneyed agenda while blatantly ignoring the will of the American people.”
