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Foxx: Democrats’ Spending Bill Kneecaps Business Owners and Puts a Target on Job Creators’ Backs

Washington, November 18, 2021
Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) spoke on the House Floor in opposition to Democrats’ so-called Build Back Better Act, which will reward Big Labor while breaking job creator’s backs.


Republican Leader Foxx’s Remarks:
 
“Democrats’ spending bill is not about building back better, it’s about building up a bureaucracy that will expand the reach of the federal government, especially over education.
 
“This bill will impose federal control over pre-k, limit parental choice, increase the cost of child care, punish job creators, reward far-left special interests, and deepen our debt crisis.
 
“This bill recklessly sets aside $400 billion for universal pre-k and child care, but in reality there is no telling how much this provision will cost the American people. Subsidizing the child care of wealthy families isn’t building back better, its building back bankrupt.
 
“This legislation is wrong for our country and wrong for our children. Education is best when run locally and when parents are involved.

“The bill also includes dangerous provisions from the PRO Union Bosses Act which kneecap business owners while putting a target on job creators’ backs with outrageously inflated Labor Department fines.

“Democrats keep saying this legislation is transformational. Well let me tell you something—the American people do not want this country to be transformed in the way they want to transform it.

“It’s time to make protecting the future of this nation—our children—a priority, not empowering teachers unions, burdening job creators, or centralizing control in the hands of unelected, unaccountable Washington bureaucrats.”   
  
Watch the full video here.
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