Marco Rubio Slams Biden’s New $1.75 Trillion ‘Build Back Socialist’ Spending Proposal

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) released a video on Thursday slamming President Joe Biden’s social spending plan after the White House unveiled a new framework for a scaled-back version, reducing the Democrats’ original $3.5 trillion bill to a $1.75 trillion proposal.

“The media and pundits are going to claim that this proves that Biden is this great dealmaker, bridging the divide between the big-government socialists and huge-government socialists,” Rubio said in the video posted to YouTube and other social media platforms. “It’s going to fall on those of us who know the truth and see this plan for what it is to inform the American people. This plan is not ‘Build Back Better’ … this plan is to ‘Build Back Socialist.’”

As The Daily Wire reported on Thursday, “The new bill drops family leave, but keeps universal preschool as well as child care subsidies, expands ‘affordable housing,’ and focuses on climate change policies, and expands the social safety net.”

A press release from Rubio’s office described the revised framework as “a multi-trillion socialist spending plan.”

In the video, which is nearly eight minutes long, Rubio referenced “the Democrats’ intra-party drama” and emphasized, “The whole focus is going to be on the fake top-line number.”

“The Squad wanted $7 trillion. The Democratic budget said $3.5 trillion,” he said. “But today’s deal, whether it’s $1.5 or $1.75 or $2 trillion. It doesn’t matter. It’s still socialism. It’s still ‘Build Back Socialism.’”

“Let’s be honest about what’s going on in our country today,” Rubio continued. “Inflation is raging, prices on everything are out of control because of Democrats. They’ve already poured $2 trillion this year alone, of your money, into our economy. They’ve screwed up the supply chain, and now they want to put another $2 trillion, or whatever. It’s like pouring gasoline on a raging fire.”

“[Democrats] know that once they get these programs going, it’s going to be impossible for Congress to ever get the votes to pull them back and end them. So the true cost of this is not what they say today. It’s going to be in the trillions of dollars.”

Rubio went on to warn that if the plan passes, it would result in higher inflation, increase the national debt, and create new programs that would “codify socialism and put socialism into our law.”

“This is not a plan to fix America. This is a plan to demolish it and to rebuild it into the socialist utopia

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