WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senate Democrats blocked U.S. Senator Ted Cruz’s (R-Texas) amendment today to the Schumer-Manchin Tax-and-Spend Bill to block Strategic Petroleum Reserve sales to China. Sen. Cruz’s amendment would block the United States from selling our emergency crude oil stockpile to China, following news that President Biden had sold at least two million barrels of American crude oil from our strategic stockpile to the Chinese Communist Party’s state-owned oil and gas company Sinopec. Before the vote […]
Senate Democrats Block Cruz Amendment
Senate Democrats Block Cruz Amendment, Insist 87,000 More IRS Agents Are Needed To Audit Middle Class Americans
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senate Democrats blocked U.S. Senator Ted Cruz’s (R-Texas) amendment to the Schumer-Manchin Tax-and-Spend Bill to strike the $80 billion dollar slush fund to prevent the hiring of 87,000 new IRS agents. Sen. Cruz’s amendment would remove funding for a new army of IRS agents who will surveil innocent Americans and small businesses with 1.2 million additional audits, half of which will target Americans making less than $75,000 a year. “There are a lot of bad […]