Republican lawmakers on Thursday slammed Democrats’ $3.5 trillion spending package as a key House committee considered parts of the huge measure, with one top GOP congressman saying it’s all entirely unnecessary, especially given inflation concerns.
Republican Rep. Kevin Brady of Texas, the ranking member of the House Ways and Means Committee, offered this assessment:
— Rep. Kevin Brady, a Texas Republican Brady also argued that all that Americans want from Democratic-controlled Washington, D.C., is for politicians to “focus on defeating COVID, rebuild a healthy economy and stop wasting our hard earned tax dollars.” He said the big spending package will “usher in a new era of government dependency with the greatest expansion of the welfare state in our lifetimes.
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