While Seeking To Increase The Country’s Credit Card Limit By Another $2 Trillion

A full 798 days – and $3.2 trillion in new debt – since Senate Democrats last passed a budget, it appears Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and her Democrat colleagues may finally be on the verge this week of at least introducing their own budget this Congress.

But there’s a critical catch – according to published reports on Capitol Hill this morning, the Senate Democrats’ budget is expected to include at least $2 trillion in new tax increases – at a time when the national unemployment rate stands at 9.1%.  Notably, this matches the $2 trillion in unchecked spending that Klobuchar is calling for by increasing the debt limit without tying it to any serious spending reforms.

“Minnesotans have waited almost 800 days for Senate Democrats to pass a budget, while the federal debt has climbed to $14.3 trillion after years of reckless spending, and now Amy Klobuchar and her fellow Democrats are talking about $2 trillion in new job-killing tax hikes,” National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) spokesman Jahan Wilcox said today.  “At what point will Senator Klobuchar finally get the message that the problem in Washington isn’t that the government taxes too little, but that it spends too much?  Amy Klobuchar campaigned as a fiscal moderate in 2006, but her record has shown her to be a liberal tax-and-spender, and this latest budget proposal is just the latest example.”

 By The Numbers – Amy Klobuchar’s Recent Fiscal Record In the Senate

 798………………………………Days since the Democrat Senate has passed a budget resolution;

$3.2 trillion…………………….Debt accumulated since a budget was last passed;

$7.3 trillion…………………….Total federal spending over that time;

$439 billion…………………….Net interest payments over that time;

2024 …………………………….Projected year that Medicare will go bankrupt;

9.1 ……………………………….Percent of workforce currently unemployed;

68,200 …………………………..Net number of federal workers hired since the Senate last passed a budget;

22,668,000…………………….Approximate total number of workers currently unemployed and underemployed;

0………………………………….Budget resolutions passed by the Democrat Senate this year;

0………………………………….Senate Budget Committee mark-ups scheduled this year;

10.75 ……………………………. Number of hours spent debating and amending budgets and spending bills in the Democrat Senate;

116.1 ……………………………. Number of hours spent debating and amending budgets and spending bills in the Republican House.

As Americans lose their jobs, Amy Klobuchar and her fellow Senate Democrats refuse to perform their own.