NEW YEAR, SAME INFLATION: from Rep. Andrew Clyde [R-GA]

It might be a new year, but there’s nothing new about President Biden’s continued crises. Last week, consumer prices skyrocketed 7% – hitting a four-decade high. Due to the Biden Administration’s careless economic policies, you and your family have experienced surging prices for months with no solution in sight. Some of the key price hikes hitting wallets across the country include:

Gas: Up 49.6%
Propane, kerosene, and firewood: Up 33.8%
Rental cars: Up 36%
Beef: Up 18.6%
Fresh and frozen chicken: Up 11.5%
Eggs: Up 11%
Coffee: Up 6.9%
Eating out at restaurants: Up 6.6%
Rent: Up 3.8%
Hotels: Up 27.6%
Steak: Up 21.4%
Tires: Up 12.4%
Bacon: Up 18.6%
Fish: Up 10%
Furniture: Up 13.8%
Ammunition Up 82%

Unfortunately, soaring prices aren’t the only concern crippling our economy. These latest inflation numbers come shortly after the worst jobs report of Biden’s presidency, as only 199,000 jobs were added during the month of December – drastically missing expectations of 420,000. Yet Biden falsely claims he has added more jobs in a year than any president in history. This bald-faced lie ignores the fact that the coronavirus pandemic and government shutdowns pulled the plug on millions of jobs. So while many jobs simply returned after plugging our economy back in as restrictions eased, there is still an ongoing work shortage due to both the Democrats’ continued incentivizing of folks to stay home and President Biden’s unconstitutional vaccine mandates. The reality is Biden hasn’t created millions of jobs – he has hindered job growth and economic prosperity while stumbling over talking points that claim otherwise.

Americans know the only thing Biden can truly take credit for is creating multiple crises – including hyperinflation, labor shortage issues, and widespread supply chain failures. It’s no wonder that the President has a dismal 33% approval rating. Yet rather than alleviating burdensome inflation or actually adding jobs to the economy, Biden is focused on taking over our elections.

In a bizarre attempt to distract from President Biden’s laundry list of crises, Democrats are championing an election reform bill, the so-called “For the People Act,” that aims to federalize our elections processes, ban voter ID, and fund incumbent campaigns with Americans’ hard-earned tax dollars – supposedly to improve election security. In fact, Senate Democrats' thinly veiled attempt to destroy 200 years of precedent by removing the filibuster is nothing more than a dangerous stunt to solidify the Left’s control of elections. President Biden and Vice President Harris even visited Georgia last week to harp on our state’s election laws and label anyone who disagrees with their goal of Washington-controlled elections as a racist. This slanderous smear is wildly inappropriate and fails to acknowledge that Georgia has less restrictive but more secure voting laws than Biden’s home state of Delaware.

This latest pivot speaks volumes to how severely out of touch Democrats are with the American people. Rest assured, my Republican colleagues and I are hard at work to highlight the Left’s hypocrisy and advocate for commonsense solutions to all of Biden’s crises, including chaos at our southern border, surging crime, and harmful inflation.