President Biden’s unveiling of a $7.3 trillion budget request for 2025 drew hard backlash from Senate Republicans on Monday, who slammed it as a “liberal wish list” and “reckless.”
Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., lambasted the budget, criticizing Biden’s plan to hike taxes and increase spending. “Prices keep going up, interest rates keep going up, and taxes keep going up, but President Biden wants to add another $6.4 trillion in debt over the next four years with more reckless, inflation-fueling spending,” Scott declared, calling it “an insult to the American people.”
President Biden just released a proposed $7.3 TRILLION budget.https://t.co/grAkHJxcvl
That is a trillion more than we spent in 2023.
Give Me a Break.
It makes me nostalgic for the comparatively frugal Biden of 2020: pic.twitter.com/1Z16oXlMd6
— John Stossel (@JohnStossel) March 11, 2024
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, warned that Biden’s proposed tax increases on job creators would result in higher prices for families. Meanwhile, Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., criticized the budget for failing to address key issues like border security, crime, and energy prices, branding it a “failure of leadership,” Fox News reports.
Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., echoed similar sentiments, blasting Biden’s budget as a mishmash of liberal wish list items and tax increases, disregarding the needs of struggling Americans. Schmitt highlighted the alarming debt situation, stating, “The United States took in around $4.5 trillion in revenue in 2023, and now Biden wants to spend just over $7.2 trillion.”
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., characterized the budget as funding a “radical wish list,” while Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., criticized Biden for proposing defense spending cuts amid global conflicts, which he argued would project weakness worldwide.
On the Democratic side, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Majority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., voiced support for Biden’s budget, describing it as a “bold, optimistic, and responsible path for the nation.” Durbin emphasized the budget’s focus on lowering costs for working families, creating jobs, and improving the economy.
“The President’s budget will lower costs for working families, reduce prescription drug prices, create good-paying jobs, provide safety and security at home and abroad, improve our economy, and much more,” Durbin claimed.
