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John Thune Touts GOP Budget, Slams Dems For Planning To Block Bill With 'Everything They've Got'
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6/9/2025
During remarks on the Senate floor Monday, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) spoke about the Republican budget currently under debate in the Senate.
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We're rapidly approaching floor consideration of our reconciliation bill, and Democrats
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are melting down.
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I'm pretty sure the Democrat leader was on the floor every day last week, bemoaning
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the bill, and emphasizing how Democrats are going to fight with everything they've got.
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That's right, Mr. President, with everything they've got.
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Democrats are going to use every resource at their disposal to fight against extending
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tax relief for American families.
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They're going to fight against funding to secure our border, they're going to fight against
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funding to equip our military, they're going to fight against unleashing American energy,
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and they're going to fight against all our efforts to make America safer, stronger, and
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more prosperous.
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And I guess it's not that surprising, Mr. President, after all, Democrats' previous
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pledges not to raise taxes on anyone making less than $400,000 a year, often felt a little
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bit grudging.
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When you're constantly looking to expand government, I guess it makes sense that you'd be more interested
01:08
in raising taxes than in allowing Americans to keep more of their hard-earned money.
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And if the Biden border crisis taught us anything, it's that Democrats have essentially no interest
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in securing our borders at all.
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And speaking of President Biden, after years of Biden budgets that deemphasize investing
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in our military, I guess it's no surprise that filling the gaps in our readiness is not
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a Democrat priority.
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Democrat hostility to conventional energy is also well known.
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And so, again, I guess it's no surprise that Democrats are opposed to unleashing America's
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energy resources.
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But it's worth thinking about, in essence, Mr. President, what Democrats are endorsing
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by fighting against this reconciliation bill.
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They're endorsing a $2.6 trillion tax hike on Americans making less than $400,000 a year.
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$2.6 trillion.
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Without our bill, a typical family of four making $80,000 will be sending an additional $1,700
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to Uncle Sam next year.
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$1,700, Mr. President.
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Apparently, Democrats are okay with that.
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Democrats are also implicitly endorsing a continuation of President Biden's tax policies at our border,
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along with an increasing and increasingly dangerous erosion in our military capabilities.
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The Air Force has the smallest fleet in its history, and a large proportion of that fleet is not mission-ready.
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Our Navy fleet is already smaller than China's.
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And without new investment, that problem will only get worse in the next few years.
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And in the defining technologies of tomorrow's wars, space, AI, hypersonics, and cyber, China is gaining quickly or already has an edge.
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On top of that, we're falling seriously behind when it comes to maintaining an adequate supply of munitions.
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But none of this, none of this, Mr. President, seems to matter to Democrats.
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In fact, nowhere in the hysteria that they're fomenting over this bill is any perceptible recognition
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of the importance of the priorities our bill is addressing from securing our border to bolstering our national defense
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to preventing a massive tax hike on American families.
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Indeed, judging from the Democrat leader's speeches last week, Democrats' biggest concern right now
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is ensuring that illegal aliens and able-bodied adults who refuse to work can stay on Medicaid.
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The leader certainly didn't put it that way, of course, but his obsession with the Medicaid provisions of our bill certainly suggests it.
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Mr. President, I think it's fair to say that Democrats lost last November because they didn't speak to the concerns of voters
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who were tired of the Biden inflation crisis and the Biden border crisis, I should say,
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and Democrats' focus on far-left ideologies.
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And judging by Democrats' opposition to our bill and their complete lack of interest in the issues our bill addresses,
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I think it's fair to say that Democrats haven't learned much since.
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Americans are looking for the things our bill will provide,
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from the economic benefits that will come with continued tax relief,
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to a secure border and a secure, stable, and affordable energy supply.
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Republicans, Mr. President, Republicans are going to deliver,
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no matter how hard Democrats fight to stand in the way.
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Mr. President, I yield the floor, and I suggest the absence of a quorum.
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The clerk will call the roll.
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Ms. Also Brooks.
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Mr. President, now who has a certain 16th,
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many members had part of the meeting.
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