{"id":1142180,"date":"2021-12-22T13:19:46","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T18:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1142180"},"modified":"2021-12-22T13:19:47","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T18:19:47","slug":"republicans-slam-democrat-rep-haley-stevens-for-saying-economy-is-flourishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-slam-democrat-rep-haley-stevens-for-saying-economy-is-flourishing\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Slam Democrat Rep. Haley Stevens for Saying Economy is &#039;Flourishing&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Frepublicans-slam-democrat-rep-haley-stevens-for-saying-economy-is-flourishing%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=1142180&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AA-GettyImages-1077072492-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Michigan&nbsp;Republicans hammered vulnerable Democrat Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) after she claimed the United States economy is \u201cflourishing\u201d under&nbsp;President Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. and is in the best&nbsp;recovery since&nbsp;President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have an economy that is flourishing. We have literally the best economic recovery since FDR,\u201d&nbsp;Stevens was caught <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZkNAS8jhfWE\">saying<\/a> during a fundraiser call on Zoom last Wednesday.&nbsp;\u201cIf you want a job today, you\u2019re going to make more money than you would\u2019ve ever been able to in the last 20 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>However,&nbsp;Michigan\u2019s unemployment rate of 5.9 percent\u2013<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/20\/analysis-republican-led-states-lead-democrat-led-states-in-economic-recovery-in-november\/\">higher<\/a> than all but eight other states\u2013is over the national average of 4.2 percent, and Stevens\u2019 state&nbsp;has only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/20\/analysis-republican-led-states-lead-democrat-led-states-in-economic-recovery-in-november\/\">recovered<\/a> roughly 74 percent of the jobs lost since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, House Democrats and Biden have rammed bills worth trillions of dollars through Congress, such as the&nbsp;$1.2 trillion infrastructure bill and the&nbsp;$1.75 trillion Build Back Better Act (BBB). The BBB would have&nbsp;ultimately&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/11\/12\/bidens-build-back-better-will-raise-taxes-on-30-of-middle-class-families\/?utm_medium=SocialFlow&amp;utm_campaign=SocialFlow&amp;utm_source=NYPTwitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">increased<\/a> taxes on the middle class, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/white-house-braces-for-latest-us-inflation-surge\/\">expanded<\/a> and prolonged the effects of inflation, which recently hit the highest levels in&nbsp;nearly 40 years, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/18\/cbo-build-back-better-act-adds-750-billion-to-deficit-over-five-years\/\">added<\/a> hundreds of billions of dollars to the U.S. deficit.<\/p>\n<p>Michigan Republicans quickly responded to&nbsp;Stevens\u2019 outlandish comments.&nbsp;Rep. Lisa McClain (R-MI) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/michigan-democrat-biden-economy-flourishing-republicans\">told<\/a> Fox News that Stevens, along with the rest of the Democrats, are living in an \u201calternate universe,\u201d and the American people are \u201csmart enough to see through this rhetoric and false narrative the Democrats are pushing.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not sure what alternate universe the Left is living in, but Americans are struggling now more than ever,\u201d McClain said. \u201cInflation is the highest it\u2019s been in 39 years at 6.8%, employers are struggling to fill 11 million open jobs, and the supply chain crisis is causing store shelves to remain empty through the holiday season.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\">\n<p>Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairwoman&nbsp;Ronna McDaniel, who is originally from Michigan,&nbsp; told Fox News that&nbsp;the \u201cBiden administration and Democrats are touting an economy that is failing every day Americans because of their failed policies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe hallmarks of their failures include a supply chain crisis, skyrocketing prices on everything from gas to groceries, record inflation, and a depleted job market,\u201d the chairwoman added. \u201cAs Democrats push for tax cuts for the rich while simultaneously raising taxes on American workers and businesses, Republican leaders will continue to lead the economic recovery with pro-growth and pro-business policies in their states.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A&nbsp;recent&nbsp;<em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> poll <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/08\/poll-voters-believe-republicans-can-better-handle-economy-inflation-border\/\">found<\/a> that&nbsp;registered voters think Republicans are better equipped than Democrats to rebuild the economy (46 percent to 35 percent)&nbsp;and get inflation under control (44 percent to 26 percent).<\/p>\n<p><i>Jacob Bliss is a reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow him on <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jacobmbliss\"><i>Twitter<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan\u00a0Republicans hammered vulnerable Democrat Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) after she claimed the United States economy is \u201cflourishing\u201d under\u00a0President Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. and is in the best\u00a0recovery since\u00a0President Franklin Delano &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"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-1142180","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\/1142180","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\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1142180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142180\/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=1142180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1142180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1142180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}