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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell seized on a report Tuesday showing inflation surged last month, blasting Democratic plans for a large-scale budge package that is ballooning in size.
'What Democrats say they want to force through this summer through reconciliation would make our current inflationary mess look like small potatoes,' the Kentucky Republican said in remarks on the Senate floor Tuesday.
'Nobody serious thinks our country needs another gigantic overdose of over-borrowing, overspending, and over-taxing,' said McConnell.
He pointed to his 'distinguished colleague,' Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who is helping to craft the budget plan for the Democratic majority, and who McConnell pointed out has been 'very transparent about his socialist ideology for decades.'
Senate Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) pointed to new data showing a jump in inflation Tuesday and blasted Democratic budget plans
'But the country did not elect a 50-50 Senate and a president who claimed to be a moderate so that Chairman Sanders could turn America into a socialist country,' said McConnell.
Sanders calls himself a Democratic Socialist, and caucuses with Democrats.
McConnell is rallying Republicans against emerging plans for a large budget 'reconciliation' package, which would be protected from filibuster and could pass on a simple-majority. It's a tactic McConnell knows well, having used it to jam through President Trump's $2.3 trillion tax cuts in 2017.
Inflation jumped 5.4 per cent in June compared to last year – the
