CBO confirms Senator Braun’s statement: Bipartisan infrastructure deal is NOT paid-for

WASHINGTON - Senator Mike Braun released the following statement following the Congressional Budget Office’s analysis that the bipartisan infrastructure bill moving through the Senate would add $256 billion to our deficit, echoing Senator Braun’s July 29 tweet thread detailing the shortcomings of the package’s “pay-fors,” where he found that the package was “several hundred billion dollars short” of being paid for.

“First independent analysis from Penn-Wharton found the bipartisan...

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Senator Mike Braun on Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill

Sen. Mike Braun: Biden, Dems are building an inflation bomb.  Republicans must not help them light the fuse

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Senator Mike Braun

8/3/21

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The bill anticipates receiving a large amount of funding from recouping fraudulently-paid enhanced federal unemployment payments. Much like the "tax-gap," estimates for how much fraudulent unemployment insurance was paid out and how much can be recouped is...

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Senator Braun on Infrastructure: Fox News | Sen. Mike Braun: Biden, Dems are building an inflation bomb. Republicans must not help them light the fuse

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Senator Braun in Appropriations Committee: Earmarks never should have been dragged back into Congress

WASHINGTON - Today, Senator Mike Braun called out the broken spending process in Washington, D.C. and the practice of stuffing spending bills with Congressional pork called earmarks in a hearing of the Senate Appropriations Committee.  

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Today the Senate Committee on Appropriations met to consider the federal fiscal year (FY) 2022 spending bills that cover the jurisdiction of Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration; Energy and Water...

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TWEET THREAD: Infrastructure bill is NOT paid-for 

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Infrastructure investment is great when it's paid for. This bipartisan infrastructure package's pay-fors are either completely phony or don't quite cut the mustard. Thread:

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1. CLAIM: $205 billion from repurposing unused COVID relief funds. FACT: We should be repurposing COVID relief funds, but reshuffling money we borrowed in the first place doesn't count as a pay-for.

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2. CLAIM: Funding from recouping fraudulent enhanced federal unemployment payments.

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Senator Braun: Fiscal irresponsibility in D.C. hurts our ability to respond to emergencies

WASHINGTON - Today Senator Mike Braun raised a budget point of order on the Senate floor regarding a Capitol security and Afghan resettlement supplemental spending bill.

Sen. Braun Speaking on the Senate Floor

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SENATOR BRAUN'S REMARKS

We need to support our Capitol Police, and we will.

We need to repay our National Guard, and we will.

And we need to protect our allies who kept our troops safe, and we will.

Emergencies arise, and the biggest threat to dealing with them is fiscal irresponsibility in D.C.

We...

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Senator Braun, colleagues: Infrastructure package continues insane deficit spending, enables multi-trillion dollar liberal wish list

WASHINGTON - Senator Mike Braun today signed on to a joint statement led by Senator Rick Scott with Senators Mike Lee, Ron Johnson, Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, and Marsha Blackburn on the bipartisan infrastructure framework.

"Congress can’t keep spending trillions of dollars we don’t have. The infrastructure package announced today continues the trend in Congress of insane deficit spending. Let’s not forget, this is just the first step in the Democrats’ plan to pass their $5.5 trillion tax and...

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