WASHINGTON – In case you missed it, U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., this week called out national Democrats’ $3.5 trillion budget proposal, which is now being considered on the Senate floor.

In his remarks, Wicker contrasted the Senate’s bipartisan infrastructure negotiations with the purely partisan procedure that will be used to advance Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders’ proposal. The package will include instructions for trillions in unnecessary spending and liberal provisions that would raise taxes, increase inflation, and jeopardize the nation’s economic recovery from COVID-19. The proposal is also expected to be a vehicle for Democrats to pass blanket amnesty for illegal immigrants without fully addressing border security.

See below for the full excerpt from Senator Wicker’s remarks:

“It is important to make this point emphatically: this legislation involving hard infrastructure – which I support – stands in sharp contrast to the Democrats’ forthcoming bill, which will certainly not gain even one Republican vote, and which the 50 Democrats in the Senate and a slim majority in the House hope to pass with only Democrat votes.

“They say their bill will be Infrastructure Part Two, but a momentary glance at what they are proposing should dispel any notion that their bill counts as real infrastructure.

“I will say it clearly and for the record: My Democratic colleagues are teeing up for next week a reckless tax-and-spending spree that our country does not need, and cannot afford.

“The Democrats’ reckless budget bill will amount to a staggering $3.5 trillion. It threatens the successful Trump tax cuts. It includes crushing tax hikes on job creators, hundreds of billions in wasteful giveaways to green corporations, and a slew of spending that would heat up inflation, jeopardize our recovery, and drive our nation deeper into debt.

“Democrats are even considering an amnesty measure – in the midst of the worst border crisis in recent memory – without giving a thought to improving border security, which would count as real infrastructure.”