{"id":1011206,"date":"2021-11-14T12:58:34","date_gmt":"2021-11-14T17:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1011206"},"modified":"2021-11-14T12:58:37","modified_gmt":"2021-11-14T17:58:37","slug":"feels-like-joe-biden-is-jimmy-carter-ted-cruz-says-skyrocketing-inflation-and-gas-lines-make-it-feel-like-the-1970s-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/feels-like-joe-biden-is-jimmy-carter-ted-cruz-says-skyrocketing-inflation-and-gas-lines-make-it-feel-like-the-1970s-again\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Feels Like Joe Biden Is Jimmy Carter\u2019: Ted Cruz Says \u2019Skyrocketing Inflation\u2019 And \u2018Gas Lines\u2019 Make It Feel Like The 1970s Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">44<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffeels-like-joe-biden-is-jimmy-carter-ted-cruz-says-skyrocketing-inflation-and-gas-lines-make-it-feel-like-the-1970s-again%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1011206&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz said Sunday that the current fiscal environment of \u201cskyrocketing inflation\u201d and \u201cgas lines\u201d makes him feel like Jimmy Carter is back as president and America is living in \u201cThat \u201970s Show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve got to tell you the trillions that are being spent, the trillions in debt that\u2019s being racked up, it is historic and not in a good way,\u201d Cruz told Fox News\u2019 \u201cSunday Morning Futures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, it kind of reminds me of the television show \u2018That 70s Show.\u2019 It feels like Joe Biden is Jimmy Carter all over again and we\u2019re seeing skyrocketing inflation, we\u2019ve seen gas lines, we\u2019ve seen a Middle East crisis, we\u2019ve seen hostages, we\u2019ve seen surrender, in this case in Afghanistan \u2014 all of these problems are replicating and it turns out cause and effect still operates, that when you spend trillions of dollars, you cause inflation,\u201d Cruz continued. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/19\/ted-cruz-china-taiwan-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018Biden Is Too Weak\u2019: Ted Cruz Says Chance Of \u2018Chinese Amphibious Assault On Taiwan Has Increased Tenfold\u2019 After Afghanistan Withdrawal)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey want you not to be able to fill up gas in your car,\u201d the senator claimed. \u201cThey want your electricity bill to be higher. They want your heating bill to be higher,\u201d he said, noting that these higher costs will not impact \u201cthe Democratic elites\u201d who use private planes.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz also said it is \u201ccruel\u201d to spend $1.9 trillion \u201con a so-called COVID relief bill that wasn\u2019t COVID relief\u201d and to now spend another $1.2 trillion on an infrastructure bill, \u201cmuch of which is not infrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The senator said the next step for the Biden administration is to \u201cmove on to Bernie Sanders\u2019 socialist budget,\u201d as he noted that the multi-trillion dollar legislation continues to be blocked by Democratic West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin and Democratic Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have two Democrats who are saying at least tap the brakes, slow down,\u201d Cruz said while insisting that \u201cevery Republican opposes this boondoggle because the American people are paying for it\u201d and it will do \u201csubstantially more damage and drive inflation up even more.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7320250\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"36\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7320250\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the passage of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal and the rule that will allow the passage of the Build Back Better Act in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, DC on Nov. 6, 2021. (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>White House press secretary Jen Psaki <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/16\/jen-psaki-inflation-jake-tapper-ronald-klain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">described inflation<\/a> as a \u201cgood thing\u201d during an interview with CNN\u2019s Jake Tapper. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/24\/joe-biden-defend-administration-record-amid-crises\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">(RELATED: <\/span>Biden Defends His Administration\u2019s Record Amid Low Approval Numbers, Multiple Crises)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Vice President Kamala Harris <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/12\/kamala-harris-biden-inflation-france-build-back-better\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said Friday<\/a> that inflation is a \u201cbig deal,\u201d but won\u2019t be worsened by the Biden administration\u2019s massive spending.<\/p>\n<p>Biden and numerous other White House officials have <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/01\/joe-biden-spending-plan-infrastructure\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">repeatedly claimed<\/a> that the spending bills will cost \u201czero dollars\u201d because of tax increases on the very rich. However, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget argued that the legislation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crfb.org\/blogs\/how-much-could-build-back-better-add-debt-update\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">will force the federal government to borrow<\/a> about $2.4 trillion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz said Sunday that the current fiscal environment of \u201cskyrocketing inflation\u201d and \u201cgas lines\u201d makes him feel like Jimmy Carter is back as president and America &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1011206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1011206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}