Malliotakis Blasts Pelosi for Jamming through Socialist Package; Vows Fight to Ensure it Never Becomes Law

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis (NY-11) released the below statement following the passage of President Biden's Build Back Better Socialist Spending Package:

"While the fight against President Biden's socialist agenda took an expected setback today with Democrats jamming his spending plan through without considering the real impact of the cost, I'm confident we will be successful in working with our Senate partners to stop this dead on arrival bill from becoming law. Also as expected, the Congressional Budget Office confirmed our suspicions that the Biden Administration has not been honest with the American people about the true cost of this bill.

"The American people have made it clear that they don’t want more government control, expansion of the IRS, vaccine mandates, higher taxes, amnesty, or benefits going to those in the country illegally. With a potential government shutdown looming, I urge my colleagues to take the time necessary to develop a budget that respects taxpayers, preserves our freedoms, and puts our hardworking citizens first. In this case, extending President Trump's budget would be most appropriate. Congress should not be rushing legislation that has dire consequences for our nation and its future generations."

Currently, the House version of President Biden's Build Back Socialist Spending Plan violates the Byrd Rule and is dead on arrival in the Senate.

To date, Republicans have successfully fought to cut the bills' spending in half and forced the removal of the following policies:

• Commissioning of an $8 billion federally funded climate police called the Civilian Climate Corps (CCC) that would conduct progressive activism on taxpayers’ dime.

• Green New Deal in our public schools.

• Dangerous & deadly green energy mandate that effectively forces Americans to get 40% of their energy from wind, solar and other unreliable forms of energy within 8 years.

• Open borders by waiving many grounds for immigration inadmissibility, including infection or lack of vaccination status during a Pandemic, failure to attend removal proceedings in previous immigration cases, and the previous renouncement of American citizenship. DHS could also waive previous convictions for human trafficking, narcotics violations, and illegal voting.

• $200 million in pork for Nancy Pelosi's congressional district.

• Paid leave entitlement that would mandate workers get 12 weeks of paid leave and would cost $500 billion over ten years according to the CBO.

• Crush family businesses and farms by imposing a 25% capital gains rate.

• Imports policies from countries with socialized medicine.

Below are the worst provisions included in Biden's Build Back Better Socialist Spending Package that Malliotakis voted against:

• Perpetuates labor shortage: This bill continues welfare benefits without work requirements for able-bodied adults without dependents at a time where there are 10.4 million job openings—more openings than there are people looking for work.

• Violates Americans’ financial privacy: This bill gives an $80 billion slush fund to the IRS to hire an 87,000 agent army that would be used to carry out the Biden administration’s plan to review every account with more than $10,000 worth of transactions in a year. The plan includes hiring 5,000 new armed criminal agents.

• Pushes Green New Deal in our universities: Democrats included a $10 billion “environmental justice” higher education credit program to indoctrinate college students and advance Green New Deal policies.

• Includes new incentives for illegal immigration: Unde this bill, illegal immigrants would be eligible for federal student aid and the enhanced child tax credit.

• Subjects small business to reckless tax penalties: The bill subjects small businesses with over $600 in transactions to backup tax withholding requirements if they fail to comply with IRS regulations

• Imposes crushing taxes on small businesses: This bill will hammer small businesses that file as individual tax earners with Obamacare’s 3.8% tax on net investment income.

• Increases out-of-pocket costs for those who rely on prescription drugs: The bill will repeal the Trump era Rebate Rule which passes through rebates directly to consumers at the point of sale.

• Makes it easier for the IRS to target taxpayers: The bill would make it easier for the IRS to issue penalties against taxpayers by removing the requirement that each penalty assessment be approved by a supervisor. Instead, the bill would merely require supervisors to provide quarterly reports on whether IRS employees are following the proper guidelines and requirements.

• Drives up costs on Americans’ utility bills: This bill includes a tax on natural gas eventually up to $1,500 per ton that could cost the American economy up to $9.1 billion, 90,000 Americans their jobs, and increase utility bills.

• Increases taxes on Americans at every income level: The bill’s trillions of dollars in tax hikes will be felt by those making under $400,000 per year, contrary to what the White House says.

• Includes legislative hull for Biden’s vaccine mandate: Increases OSHA penalties on businesses that fail to implement the mandate up to $700,000 per violation and includes nearly a billion dollars in funding for the Department of Labor to increase enforcement of these penalties.

• Lowers wages for working families and moves jobs overseas: The 15% minimum tax on book income is a double tax on investment. This would raise taxes on American companies by hundreds of billions of dollars, kill 25,000 jobs, and reduce wages by 0.1%, all in the name of complying with Biden’s desire to appease global elites through a global minimum tax.

• Increases energy dependence on OPEC, Russia, and China.

• provisions included in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that authorized energy production in the Arctic that will result in 130,000 Americans losing their jobs and $440 billion in lost federal revenue.

• Furthers radical abortion agenda: The bill would also further Democrats’ radical pro-abortion agenda by allowing taxpayer money to fund elective abortions, subsidizing plans that cover them, and creating new ways taxpayer money could be spent on pro-abortion facilities.