Congresswoman Tenney's Statement on Passage of Partisan Build Back Better Act

Washington, DC – Congresswoman Claudia Tenney (NY-22) today released the following statement after voting against the Build Back Better Act that is estimated to cost US taxpayers at least $1.7 trillion dollars and add $367 billion to the national deficit over ten years.

“Lame duck Speaker Pelosi is ignoring the will of the people, who just recently sent a clear message to Washington rejecting this out-of-control spending and far-left agenda. This reconciliation package was rammed through the House of Representatives without any meaningful opportunity for review, consideration, or amendment. For weeks, we have waited for a Congressional Budget Office analysis, which we only received hours ago. What’s more astonishing is House Democrats still have no idea how many of this bill's provisions will even work. The so-called Build Back Better Act is a handout to communist China that will raise taxes on small businesses, hurt Upstate farms, and drag government into every aspect of family life. I reject this bill and the one-party rule in Washington that delivered it. This hodgepodge of Green New Deal wish list items and subsidies for special interests undermines our free-market system and erodes the great American spirit of entrepreneurship and opportunity.”

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