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Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Republicans who opposed the Inflation Reduction Act voted against “Mother Earth.”
“To reduce prescription drug costs, reduce health care costs, reduce the deficit and pay to reduce inflation, save the planet, and every Republican in the House and Senate voted against it,” he said. the California Democrat. at the Inflation Reduction Act bill signing ceremony on Friday.
Pelosi continued: “How could they vote against lowering prescription drug costs? How could they vote against helping families with their health care costs? How could they vote against the planet, the Mother Earth? Mother Earth gets mad every now and then, and this legislation. will help us address all of that.”
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US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., speaks during a news conference at the US Capitol (Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
House Democrats passed the $739 billion Inflation Relief Act on Friday without a single Republican vote, giving President Biden’s domestic agenda a boost at a time of record inflation and low approval ratings for presidential jobs.
Republicans who opposed the bill argued that it is full of unnecessary spending and will not address rising inflation, and many cited a report by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office that said the legislation would have an “insignificant” effect on inflation.
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President Biden is expected to sign the bill into law next week when he returns from a vacation in South Carolina.
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