{"id":1616631,"date":"2022-08-19T13:03:14","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T17:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1616631"},"modified":"2022-08-19T13:03:15","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T17:03:15","slug":"orwellian-inflation-reduction-act-wont-reduce-inflation-says-sen-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/orwellian-inflation-reduction-act-wont-reduce-inflation-says-sen-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Orwellian\u2019 Inflation Reduction Act Won\u2019t Reduce Inflation, Says Sen. Johnson"},"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\">20<\/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%2Forwellian-inflation-reduction-act-wont-reduce-inflation-says-sen-johnson%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=1616631&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 class=\"speakable\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-democrats\">Democrats<\/a>\u2019 $739 billion\u00a0Inflation Reduction Act\u00a0is \u201cOrwellian,\u201d said Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/sen-johnson-labels-democrats-inflation-reduction-act-orwellian-will-not-reduce-inflation\">on Fox News<\/a>, saying that it will do nothing to help struggling Americans with high <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-inflation\">inflation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>President Biden\u00a0signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law on Aug. 16, but White House officials have yet to say when the act would start reducing inflation or by what degree.<\/p>\n<p>Overall U.S. inflation rates in July currently sit at 8.5 percent from a year ago, while U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) sits in recession territory.<\/p>\n<p>The Wisconsin senator has cast severe doubt on the bill, which was pushed through by the Democrats with almost no Republican support, which they claim will help lower rising costs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">\u201cIt\u2019s not going to reduce inflation. It\u2019s going to increase businesses\u2019 costs by increasing taxes on them. So businesses are going to recover those costs by increasing prices. That\u2019s inflation,\u201d said Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson met with voters at the Wisconsin State Fair on Aug. 12, where he said his constituents\u2019 top concerns are inflation and gas prices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople can\u2019t get by. They don\u2019t have enough money to fill up the tank. They\u2019re putting groceries back,\u201d said Johnson, continuing, \u201cthis is what this election is about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConsider how Orwellian the name of that bill is,\u201d said Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) agreed, declaring \u201cIt should be illegal to name a bill something that it doesn\u2019t do, and this is one of many cases where the Democrats get away with this,\u201d he said on Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>The congressman pointed to the Affordable Care Act, which caused many Americans to lose their private health insurance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGo back and think about from bills like the Affordable Care Act to the Inflation Reduction Act\u2014this is misleading to the American people, and there should be a rule in Congress that makes it against the rules<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Democrats\u2019 $739 billion\u00a0Inflation Reduction Act\u00a0is \u201cOrwellian,\u201d said Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) on Fox News, saying that it will do nothing to help struggling Americans with high inflation. President Biden\u00a0signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law on Aug. 16, but White House officials have yet to say when the act would start reducing inflation or [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":327,"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-1616631","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\/1616631","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\/327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1616631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616631\/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=1616631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1616631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1616631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}