{"id":905152,"date":"2021-10-21T08:59:08","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T12:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=905152"},"modified":"2021-10-21T09:15:24","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T13:15:24","slug":"group-of-160-republicans-urge-biden-to-fix-supply-chain-crisis-before-considering-more-social-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/group-of-160-republicans-urge-biden-to-fix-supply-chain-crisis-before-considering-more-social-spending\/","title":{"rendered":"Group of 160 Republicans Urge Biden to Fix Supply Chain Crisis Before Considering More Social Spending"},"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\">32<\/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%2Fgroup-of-160-republicans-urge-biden-to-fix-supply-chain-crisis-before-considering-more-social-spending%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=905152&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>A group of 160 Republican lawmakers have sent a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GOPLeader\/status\/1450956635690704899\/photo\/1\">letter<\/a> to President Joe Biden urging him to \u201creevaluate his priorities\u201d and address the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-supply-chain\">supply chain<\/a> and ports crisis in the&nbsp;United States before considering&nbsp;additional social spending.<\/p>\n<p>The letter was led and signed by Rep. Sam Graves (R-Mo.),&nbsp;the ranking member on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, and also signed&nbsp;by lawmakers including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, among others.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy shared the letter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GOPLeader\/status\/1450956635690704899\/photo\/2\">on Twitter<\/a> on Oct. 21, writing, \u201cMr. President, it\u2019s time for you to reevaluate your priorities. We must address our supply chain and ports crisis before Congress considers any additional social spending and taxation legislation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs House Republicans, we write because we refuse to stand by and watch as your administration dilutes America\u2019s ability to ensure the safe and efficient movement of goods, people, and services throughout our transportation network,\u201d the letter reads.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHouse Republicans have repeatedly demonstrated a willingness to work on bipartisan solutions to improve our infrastructure.&nbsp;We regret that our efforts have been spurned as Speaker [Nancy] Pelosi, Majority Leader [Chuck] Schumer, and your Administration use infrastructure as a Trojan horse to push radical policies that make it more difficult and expensive for families to find or afford basic goods and for businesses to continue the long road to recovery from the pandemic,\u201d it adds.<\/p>\n<p>Industries across the United States are facing&nbsp;acute bottlenecks in supply chains, such as material and worker shortages as well as the skyrocketing prices of materials,&nbsp;driven by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-covid-19-pandemic\">COVID-19 pandemic<\/a>. These issues have also&nbsp;impacted consumers who are now faced with empty shelves and higher prices on top of&nbsp;rising <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-inflation\">inflation<\/a> levels.<\/p>\n<p>About 250,000 containers of goods are currently stacked up on the docks due to delayed pickups, from chassis shortages and a lack of space in rail yards and warehouses, and that is causing dozens of ships to back up at anchor outside the port, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us-supply-chain-disruptions-too-great-for-biden-christmas-fix-experts_4051039.html?utm_source=ai&amp;utm_medium=search\">Reuters reports.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must address the global supply chain and ports crisis before Congress even considers additional social spending and taxation legislation. Our priority right now should be strengthening our nation\u2019s economy and increasing our global competitiveness,\u201d the letter continues.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration has been focused heavily on pushing through two major spending bills: a&nbsp;bipartisan infrastructure bill worth&nbsp;$1.2 trillion that was passed by the Senate in August.&nbsp;That bill is currently being held up in the House as some progressive Democrats said it will only be passed if the Senate approves the $3.5 trillion social and climate spending bill.<\/p>\n<p>The letter goes on to accuse the Biden administration of further fueling the current crisis by raising energy costs and triggering inflation through \u201creckless unchecked spending\u201d and \u201cattacking American businesses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIronically it is now the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-private-sector\">private sector<\/a> that you are calling on to \u2018step up\u2019 and fix the supply chain problems,\u201d it adds.<\/p>\n<p>President Biden on Oct. 13 threatened to \u201ccall out\u201d private companies who fail to assist his administration and step up to&nbsp;address the global supply chain bottlenecks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the private sector doesn\u2019t step up, we\u2019re going to call them out and ask them to act,\u201d the president said in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2021\/10\/13\/remarks-by-president-biden-on-supply-chain-bottlenecks\/\">remarks at the White House<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of these goods won\u2019t move by themselves. For the positive impact to be felt all across the country and by all of you at home, we need major retailers who ordered the goods and the freight movers who take the goods from the ships to factories and to stores to step up as well,\u201d Biden said.<\/p>\n<p>The White House says it has received confirmation from UPS, FedEx, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-walmart\">Walmart<\/a>, Target, Samsung, and other companies, as well as the Port of Los Angeles, to increase the number of shifts to deal with a backlog of container ships, labor shortages, and warehousing issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe urge you to call on your congressional allies to halt discussions on a budget reconciliation bill that aims to reshape the&nbsp;social&nbsp;fabric of this country and instead work on real infrastructure solutions that focus on moving goods and people safely and efficiently,\u201d the letter adds.<\/p>\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\" readability=\"9\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/ttl7dayERL_WEB_KatabellaRoberts.jpg\" alt=\"Katabella Roberts\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"names\">\n<p>Katabella Roberts<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Katabella Roberts is a reporter currently based in Turkey. She covers news and business for The Epoch Times, focusing primarily on the United States.\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of 160 Republican lawmakers have sent a letter to President Joe Biden urging him to \u201creevaluate his priorities\u201d and address the\u00a0supply chain and ports crisis in the\u00a0United States &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"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-905152","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\/905152","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=905152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905152\/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=905152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}