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ICYMI: Smith on Mornings with Maria: The American people want the bleeding to stop when it comes to this reckless spending
WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Budget Committee Republican Leader Jason Smith (MO-08) slammed the Biden Administration for its reckless, inflationary spending on Fox Business’s Mornings with Maria today, as the latest inflation report shows prices remaining at a 40-year high of 7.7 percent: “Inflation is 7.7 percent year-over-year, but if you compare how much inflation has gone up since Joe Biden has taken office, it’s 14.4 percent. And real wages, Maria, real … Continue Reading
November 07, 2022
ICYMI: Smith, Brady Demand Answers on Failed Rollout of Democrats' Dismantled Child Tax Credit Policy
House Budget Committee Republican Leader Jason Smith (MO-08) and House Ways & Means Committee Republican Leader Kevin Brady (TX-08) sent a letter last week to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig demanding an accounting of the botched rollout of the Democrats’ partisan dismantling of the Child Tax Credit (CTC) in the American Rescue Plan Act, including attempts to stand up an online portal that failed to meet the needs of … Continue Reading
October 28, 2022
ICYMI: Smith, Brady Demand Answers on Waste and Abuse in American Rescue Plan
House Budget Committee Republican Leader Jason Smith (R-MO) and House Ways & Means Committee Republican Leader Kevin Brady (R-TX) sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen demanding an accounting of the waste in the $2 trillion American Rescue Plan. Hundreds of billions in abuse and fraud of taxpayer dollars have occurred while the highest inflation in 40 years is crushing working families. “Last year, Democrats enacted the largest spending … Continue Reading
June 10, 2022
ICYMI: The Cost of Biden’s Border Crisis
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Last week, House Budget Committee Republican Leader Jason Smith (MO-08) led the largest group of members of the U.S. of House Representatives since President Biden took office down to the U.S.-Mexico border to see firsthand the cost to taxpayers of Biden’s Border Crisis. Border Steel Stuck in Storage Members, including 11 from the House Budget Committee, saw over $350 million of unused border wall steel in stacks 20 feet high, as far as the eye could see, because … Continue Reading
March 17, 2022
ICYMI Smith Op-Ed: One Year Later - Why Biden's "American Rescue" Failed
In a recent op-ed published in the Washington Examiner, to mark the one-year anniversary of President Biden’s so-called American Rescue Plan (ARP), House Budget Committee Republican Leader Jason Smith (MO-08) exposes the law’s destructive legacy. A year in, polling now shows that Americans are highly skeptical of the President’s bill, as they face the highest inflation in 40 years, massive worker shortages, and a huge trail of waste left behind by the … Continue Reading
February 15, 2022
ICYMI Smith Op-Ed: More COVID Money Won't Cover Up Biden's Failures
According to recent reporting, the Biden Administration is preparing to ask Congress for additional so-called "COVID relief" spending. In a recent Fox News op-ed, House Budget Committee Republican Leader Jason Smith (MO-08) lays out the case for why Congress should not give the Biden White House another dime in "COVID relief" to help clean up - or cover up - the mess they created. Key Points The Biden Administration has established a track record of waste and mismanagement starting with the … Continue Reading
January 10, 2022
ICYMI: Smith, Rodgers, Brady Slam Biden Administration Over Diverting Billions in Federal Funds from COVID-19 Testing, National Stockpile, Amid Reports Administration Plans to Request Additional Funds
House Budget Committee Republican Leader Jason Smith (MO-08), House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA-05), and House Ways and Means Committee Republican Leader Kevin Brady (TX-08) slammed the Biden Administration for massive waste, diverting funding, and a failure to provide any accounting for how trillions in taxpayer dollars appropriated to supposedly combat COVID-19 have been spent – all while new reports indicate that the Administration … Continue Reading
