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I hope you saw my latest weekly column.

 

ROGER WICKER: Biden's gambit to nuke Senate rules meets bipartisan resistance
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At a time when our nation is sharply divided, some on the political left seem
determined to drive partisan tensions to a breaking point. This past week,
President Biden launched an unprecedented attack on the U.S. Senate by urging
members of his own party to destroy the 60-vote threshold that requires broad
buy-in for most legislation.

 

Eliminating this rule would allow a bare majority of Senators to pass
legislation without seeking minority input, tossing aside two centuries of
sound precedent. This would transform the Senate from a unique
consensus-building body into a fast-moving conveyor belt for partisan ideas –
exactly what the Founding Fathers hoped to avoid.

 

The president’s goal in all this has been to clear the way for a sweeping
federal takeover of our elections with a razor-thin Senate majority. He
justified this push by falsely painting sensible state election integrity laws
as an attack on voting rights, equating them with “Jim Crow 2.0.” These
reckless statements could not be further from the truth. It is easier than ever
to vote in all 50 states, as evidenced by the historic voter turnouts in the
2020 and 2021 elections. The President does the nation a grave disservice by
repeating falsehoods that are needlessly raising the temperature of our
politics.

 

Despite this shrill rhetoric from the President, two courageous Senators have
withstood withering partisan attacks to prevent this assault on the Senate.
Democratic Sent. Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin joined all 50 Republicans in
firmly defending the filibuster, with Sinema calling it “a critical tool that
we need to safeguard our democracy.” Americans can be grateful that cooler
heads prevailed, allowing the Senate to remain a guardrail against election
takeovers, socialism, and extreme ideas of all kinds.

 

Americans still facing 40-year inflation


While the President stokes division, Americans are continuing to face soaring
prices for everyday necessities. The latest consumer price report showed prices
rising by seven percent over the past year, the worst inflation in 40 years.
The biggest price jumps were for gasoline (49%), used cars (37%), natural gas
(24%), and food items, such as meat, poultry, fish, and eggs (12%). These
exorbitant prices have canceled out three years of wage gains and are a
burdensome tax on working Americans.

 

Inflation is also taking a heavy toll on job creators. Wholesale prices jumped
a record 9.7% on the year, forcing businesses to pass on higher costs to
consumers. Meanwhile, hiring continues to suffer, with half of small businesses
saying they have job openings they cannot fill. Our economy produced a mere
199,000 new jobs in December, far below expert predictions, and we are still
four million jobs shy of our pre-pandemic economy. Our economy will continue to
struggle until we get inflation under control.

 

Biden policies hold back recovery


It is increasingly clear that this inflation crisis was ignited last year by
the president’s $1.9 trillion spending bill and by his war on U.S. energy
production. Instead of changing his policies, however, the president is blaming
others. He recently blamed the meat industry for higher meat prices and blamed
OPEC, the world’s oil cartel, for high gas prices. Americans deserve a
President who has the wisdom to shift course when his policies are hurting the
economy.

 

Recently I met with the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell. We
discussed the ways federal overspending has contributed to rising prices, and I
was encouraged by his recognition that inflation is a “severe threat.”
Republicans stand ready to do our part to beat back inflation. I just hope the
president can lay aside his partisan rhetoric and meet us at the table.

 

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Senator Roger Wicker

 

 

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