National Talking Points

Joe Biden’s massive $2 TRILLION infrastructure plan is a trojan horse for left-wing policies.

• Democrats will claim this plan is about creating jobs, but in reality this far left legislation would destroy jobs, and spend dangerously high levels of money on radical priorities.
  • This plan has a massive $1.8 trillion in tax hikes in the middle of a recovery.
  • The federal tax rate on businesses would be increased to 28%.
    • Biden’s tax hike would lead to the U.S. having a higher business tax rate than communist China.
    • The Tax Foundation estimates this would kill 159,000 jobs, shrink the economy, and cut wages for low-income Americans.
  • This tax increase comes before the tax hikes Biden has promised in the coming weeks, including raising the death tax and taxes on small businesses.
• Only a fraction of the $2 trillion plan goes to infrastructure.
  • Only $157 billion goes toward the things that most Americans recognize as infrastructure.
  • Only $115 billion for repairing roads and bridges (just 5% of the plan)
  • Only $25 billion for our airports (just 1% of the plan)
  • Only $17 billion for inland waterways and ports (less than 1% of the plan)
  • Even going by the Biden White House’s figures, less than 30% out of more than $2 trillion will be used for transportation infrastructure.
• This plan promotes progressive agenda items including:
  • $400 billion for an “unrelated” program for home care that “was a top demand of some union groups”
  • $174 billion to subsidize the electric vehicle industry
  • Biden’s plan calls for passing the radical “PRO Act,” which gives power to union bosses, hurts workers, and would cost businesses $47 billion every year.
• Radical liberals such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have called for this plan to go even further in advancing a far-left progressive agenda.
• RNC Research: Where’s The Infrastructure?

H.R. 1

• All Americans should be concerned about H.R. 1 which would make our elections less secure.
  • Democrats are even talking about ending the filibuster and trying to ram H.R. 1 through the Senate with just 50 votes.
• This legislation is far outside the mainstream and Senate Democrats including Senators Warnock, Kelly, Cortez Masto, and Hassan should swiftly reject this power grab.
• H.R. 1 would federalize elections and weaponize the Federal Election Commission.
• Democrats’ bill would implement unconstitutional federal standards mandating “national rules” they have long desired.
  • H.R. 1 would force states to allow ballot harvesting.
  • Illegal immigrants could be counted as residents, skewing Congressional Districts towards Democrats.
  • Felons would be granted the right to vote the moment they leave prison.
  • H.R. 1 would eviscerate commonsense state voter ID laws.
  • 37 states would be forced to adopt automatic voter registration.
  • 29 states would be forced to adopt same day voter registration.
  • H.R. 1 would transform the Federal Election Commission (FEC) into a partisan 5-member organization under the control of the White House.
  • The bill promises to expand flawed vote by mail systems Democrats pushed during the 2020 Presidential election.

Biden’s Crisis at the Border

• The Biden administration is still refusing to recognize the border crisis.
  • Not only is Biden refusing to answer questions about the border, he is preventing the media from covering the true scope of the crisis.
• Biden should visit the border to understand the full scope of the crisis which includes:
• A historic surge in illegal crossings.
• More than 100,000 migrants were apprehended by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) at the southwest border in February, a 173% increase over February 2020.
• A record number of migrant children and teens in CBP facilities.
• The current surge is leading to overcrowded conditions, with some stations at over 360% capacity.
  • Growing concerns about a coronavirus outbreak in overcrowded facilities.
• Instead of working with Republicans and Democrats in Congress, Biden has proposed a radical immigration agenda that will only move us closer to open borders.
  • Includes amnesty for 11 million migrants living in the United States
  • Eliminates restrictions on chain migration
  • Imports more foreign workers
• Biden has reversed many of the Trump Administration’s border security policies that kept our country safe, including construction of the border wall.
• Migrants are directly citing Biden’s policies for why they are crossing the border.
• The Biden Administration should give this crisis the attention it deserves.

Source: MN GOP Messaging