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Garcia Releases Statement After Voting No On Inflation Reinforcement Act 

Congressman Mike Garcia, R-Santa Clarita, released the following statement Friday after voting against H.R. 5376, a partisan bill that aggravates the current inflationary period.

“The content of this bill has nothing to do with the title,” Garcia said. “This bill raises taxes, cuts jobs and only further aggravates this current inflationary period. From a $52 billion tax hike on small businesses, to adding federal funding for 87,000 additional IRS agents and an increase in audits for middle-class Americans, to $1.5 billion to plant trees in urban areas, none of these progressive wishlist items have anything to do with fighting inflation. These provisions will increase prices and spending year-over-year, which will only further raise the cost of living for all Americans. That will be particularly backbreaking for California families where the cost of living is already unimaginably high.”

Garcia feels this bill also shows that democratic leaders are not taking their jobs seriously.

“The bill further reminds us that congressional Democrats are not taking their jobs seriously in the majority,” Garcia said. Californians already suffer from the highest tax rates in the country, pay an exorbitant amount for gas, and struggle to make ends meet as the cost of living continues to skyrocket. Instead of this progressive wishlist bill, the country needs immediate inflation relief and a long-term solution that counteracts Biden and his administration’s failed policies that are leading us down a very dark path. This bill will not fight inflation, but instead aggravate this inflationary period further.”


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Garcia Releases Statement After Voting No On Inflation Reinforcement Act 

38 comments

  1. He is all smoke and mirrors. He only tries to look like he does things for us during election season. Vote him out. The bill that passed is good for California and the country.

  2. We are behind you, Mike. Thank you for fighting for all of us.

    • 100% supporting Garcia. The feeble and inept Biden Administration doesn’t understand inflation. Printing more money will not reduce it, it will only make it worse. I guess the Democrat politicians are too busy celebrating partisan raids to those that disgree with them.

      • Espionage is never partisan. Trump is a clear and present danger to this country. You can attempt to distort, twist and lie, but know this: NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW

      • Partisan raid? Here’s a quick Civics lesson you so conveniently seem to forget or, you are truly as ignorant as you appear. There are 3 separate but equal branches to our government: the Executive, Judicial and Legislative. Our democracy works when we have a working checks and balance system; NO one branch is more powerful than the other.

        Atop the Judicial branch is our Department of Justice; again it is a separate but equal arm of the government. THE DOJ and the US Attorney do NOT work for the president (contrary to what Trump, the GOP and yes, William Barr believed/acted like). The US Attorney Merrick Garland, addressed the nation and stated the obvious “NO PERSON IS ABOVE THE LAW.” Please explain how a court approved legal search and seizure was a biased raid, when the former President ignored a prior subpoena to turn over boxes of documents he was in violation of taking in the first place?

        The only partisan politics at play is the GOP demanding the FBI be defunded, the House Minority leader Kevin McCarthy, threatening Garland for doing his job, Margery Taylor Greene selling merchandise calling for the FBI to be disbanded, Senators Hawley, Cruz, Graham and a sundry of other deplorables equating the FBI search to the old East Germany Secret Police force and comparisons to Nazi Germany. All trying to defend the indefensible. Pathetic, unAmerican and quite frankly, not surprising considering how low the bar has been leveled by the Republicans and those who continue to support Trump.

    • Yep partisan raid, we’ll put your right. All theater and staged by the democrats just like this fake insurerection junk. All staged by the deep state cabal. Wear with you garcia. You support and still honor our real president Donald J. So we support you! Keep fighting. Bring him back to his Whitehouse.

      • You are saying things that aren’t true. There is proof to refute your comments. Jan.6 was a sad day for our country. Armed people showed up for Trump’s rally and he allowed them in, past the metal detectors. He encouraged everyone to go to the capitol building, knowing that some of them were armed. His top advisors and family told Trump when the violence was out of control. Police were injured, people died, the capitol building was raided, and Pence had to evacuate to a safe space. There was a call to “hang Pence” in the crowd. Trump watched TV and did nothing about the situation for hours. He had been told that he lost the election but he couldn’t accept it.Later,Republicans and others testified to the occurrences under oath, including his daughter. All news stations were covering the story as it was happening.

  3. Partisan raid? Are you talking about the files that Trump illegally removed from the White House, and the FBI going to Mar Lago to get them? You must be talking about something else. NO ONE WANTS A PAST PRESIDENT TO REMOVE WHAT IS SUPPOSED TO STAY IN THE WHITE HOUSE….Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians, Independents…, Trump is not a victim here.
    If you’re talking about a raid other than this that was actually partisan, please set me straight, Rufus! Thank you

    • The tRump Republican Party which high jacked the the Republican Party approves of tRump’s Big Lies, diversion tactics, amazing Narcissistic stories, fear tactics, & on & on AND still won’t for all the people. What he’s done is NOT acceptable. Yet other GOP back step. Until both parties quit thinking of their or selves, we are lost. I’m with Flo here!

    • And we won’t even begin to address a former President of the United States invoking the Fifth hundreds of times over many hours. An office charged and sworn to upholding the rule of law in our country.
      Mike Garcia is utterly lame for our district. He is not looking out for the majority of his constituents. I am looking forward to his voting out in November.

    • So by your logic we should raid Obama as well when he has over thousands of pages he was suppose to digitize and give back and never happened. Also, Hillary after being caught with an illegal server and then smashes all their cell phones and bleached bit them should have been raided as well. Great explanation by an Attorney General who looked pathetic on TV. You’ve been set straight! Now Trump has more support and more donations, great accomplishment! LMAO at the buffoonery!

      • You just wrote “should have been raided as well” so you agree with the raid! Got it.

      • Hilary was raided. Watch the real news for a change. Massive swarm all over her estate. BTW fox News and DJToad himself praised it when it happened. None of us would be able to get away with such a espionage crime. Why should this idiot?

      • Wrong never happened. The National Archives and Records Administration pushed back on this baseless claim on Friday, August 12, 2022. According to the NARA statement, “they received exclusive and legal custody of Obama’s records when he left office in 2017. They received about 30 million pages of unclassified records transferred to a NARA facility near Chicago and they continue to be maintained exclusively by the NARA.”

        Also, Hillary Clinton was never president, it was her husband Bill Clinton. When the the then FBI Director, James Comey reopened the file regarding Hillary’s email, he did so publicly and their home was not under a court ordered “search and seizure.” The FBI investigation took place without any obstruction from either Clinton and NO NUCLEAR DOCUMENTS or other TOP SECRET DOCUMENTS were found on her computer server.

        Oh and by the way, the Republicans held over a dozen separate PARTISAN investigations regarding Benghazi in the run up to the 2106 Presidential election. The Republicans did so to discredit the then Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton and ALL of them failed to find fault. Additionally, Hillary Clinton was publicly questioned on live television for over eleven hours; NOT ONCE did she plead the fifth. Unlike Trump, who took the fifth over 440 times in one deposition by the NYC District Attorney investigator him for multiple financial fraud charges.

        Your defense and willingness to ignore FACTS is pathetic. Try spreading your BS to other mindless Trump sycophants. It will not work here.

        • As always Alice, you are all WRONG. KHTS and the commenters here are staunchly against taxation, government waste, and other manifestations of DONKEY POX..
          You few loud liberal leftist hand-full of bolshivecks, fixated on a former presidents Rump are NOT the source of anything useful. You have NEVER influenced anyone’s mind. You just emit noise.
          Roll-back California taxes. Eliminated wasteful government spending until unemployment rises to a natural level and D3monicTaxRats are living in tents on sidewalks with their hands out.

  4. You are right, redubs are ruining our country. No votes from redubs on help for vets. Guess redubs are getting to much money from lobbyists to see thru the smoke screen. Vote BLUE AND FOR CHRISTIE SMITH TOO!! GO DEMS!!

  5. Wonder if the bill is supporting hiring 1,000s of more IRS agents?! Deceitful Liberals with their tricky wording on bills to fool decent people! Wake up, not Woke up Sheeple!

  6. Changing the subject to other politicians isn’t effective. We’re talking about Trump.
    Trump has done so many things wrong, it’s crazy. He paid off a hooker to silence her, disregarded Covid when we needed serious leadership, bamboozled students by taking their money with his fake Trump University, refused to show tax records, incited violence on Jan.6 which resulted in death, put Pence and others in danger, and on and on. Nice, decent, educated Republicans are pulling away from him.

  7. Sometimes a person will make a comment that then steers the subject away from the article. People respond. It happens all the time.
    Yea, you’d like people to “get over it,” because it’s hard to face all of the problems he’s caused, especially if you voted for him. How embarrassing.

  8. Inflation Act, instead of 8,000 new IRS agents to scam audit the middle class , how about 8,000 new border patrol to stop all the Illegal Aliens, drug & human smuggling & how about open back up the Keystone XL pipeline with massive drilling/fracking?!

  9. Donkey Pox,
    You wrote “You are High or Whack,”to TJones. What’s that about? And to tell him to put his clothes back on?
    Where did you learn your manners?
    Maybe your comments should be moderated.

  10. Yep, comments moderated =Censored!! Liberals love to control people with censorship, brainwashing, code words, euphemisms and other deceitful PCways to attempt to change reality, facts & truths! A shame some cannot understand the wit, humor & brilliance of Ben, Donkey & TAP share in this country of Freedom of Speech! The heat outside easily melts Snowflakes into cowering into their safe spaces! Wake up, not Woke up Sheeple!

  11. Donkey Pox brought up moderating.

  12. Donald Pox!!!Trying to recover from it.

  13. Don’t worry Liberals, it’s OK, when this is over the next scam is Trump has been reported to have shot spit wads at the wall in a government school—-it’s gotta be a severe example of an overthrow & vandalism of government!

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