Washington, D.C. – NRSC Chairman Rick Scott released the following statement regarding President Joe Biden’s first State of the Union address:
“Under President Joe Biden and Senate Democrats, the state of our union is weak and getting weaker. The President’s speech tonight seemed to reflect an alternate reality to that of working Americans.
“Inflation is at a 40-year high due to Democrats’ economic mismanagement and wasteful spending, yet the President called for more spending which would worsen the problem and significantly increase our national debt. Rising gas prices are exposing the stupid decision to scrap the Keystone pipeline but the President wants to continue down a path towards killing the American energy industry. The President also failed to convey confidence that he has a plan to combat rising crime and the woke culture that is tearing apart our communities and our schools.
“America is headed in the wrong direction, and according to public polling, the only people who haven’t realized it yet are President Biden and his Democrat allies in Congress. Senate Democrats like Raphael Warnock, Mark Kelly, Catherine Cortez Masto, Michael Bennet, and Maggie Hassan have done nothing but rubberstamp Joe Biden’s disastrous agenda that’s hurting American families. In just over nine months, Americans will send an unmistakable wake-up call and deliver Congress back to the Republicans.”
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