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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...

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...

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.

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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.

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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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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...

“President Biden and Democrats have made it obvious this bipartisan infrastructure deal and their reckless $3.5 trillion spending spree are joined at the hip. Regardless of what bipartisan negotiators come up with to attempt to pay for this deal, this is a bait-and-switch by Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer and any Republican who falls for it is giving Bernie and AOC the keys to drive through their radical socialist agenda.”

WASHINGTON - Senator Mike Braun today questioned Dr. Anthony Fauci about if his agency was one of the “leading health organizations” consulted by Facebook on their decision to remove content claiming COVID was man-made in February of this year, and asked Dr. Fauci and CDC Director Rochelle Walensky if they will support COVID vaccine mandates for grade school kids.

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WASHINGTON—Today, Senator Mike Braun requested unanimous consent for his Let States Set Medicaid Requirements Act on the Senate floor.

He was joined by Senator Todd Young (R-IN) and Senator John Cornyn (R-TX).

This legislation would empower states to set their Medicaid work and community engagement requirements for certain Medicaid recipients. 

Indiana’s Gateway to Work program would require 20 hours-per-month of work, job searching, school, or community service activities for certain able...

WASHINGTON -- Today, Senator Mike Braun and Senator Todd Young commended the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) decision to back off a proposal to change the federal definition of “city” and instead retain the existing Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) designation. The OMB’s proposed change would have doubled the population threshold for a city from 50,000 to 100,000 people, negatively impacting five Indiana cities – Terre Haute, Columbus, Kokomo, Michigan City-LaPorte, and Muncie — and...