Murphy Reacts to Biden Joint Session Speech

Greenville, N.C. – Congressman Greg Murphy, M.D. (NC-03) released the following statement after President Joe Biden's speech during the Joint Session of Congress:

"On the campaign trail and in his inaugural address, President Biden routinely indicated that unity would be the guiding principle of his administration. Yet by his actions, he has deliberately played the American people. Since taking office, he has governed as the most partisan president in modern history.

"Biden has killed thousands of jobs and made our country more dependent on foreign oil by nixing the Keystone XL pipeline and reentering the Paris Climate Agreement. The Biden-Harris Administration has created a humanitarian crisis at our southern border by abolishing the successful ‘Remain in Mexico' policy. Their actions have sent COVID positive immigrants into the heart of the nation and allowed drug cartels free reign of the border leading to increased drug and human trafficking. He and Vice President Harris have endangered American lives by their reckless actions.

"Then, under the pretense of COVID-19 relief, when only 9% of that legislation actually was related to COVID-19, he has rammed through trillions of dollars of liberal wish list items that our nation simply cannot afford. He and Speaker Pelosi have essentially ruled by decree rather than by bipartisan efforts. These are not the actions of a political moderate.

"Tonight, he made a pitch for his $2.5 trillion so-called infrastructure plan and his $1.8 trillion so-called family plan. These initiatives, just like his so-called COVID-19 legislation, would rob the hard-earned dollars of future generations to fund programs that only his most radical supporters are calling for him to pass.

"If these were signed into law, the running total of money he has spent since taking office would shoot up to $6.1 trillion – a staggering and reckless amount of money that would transform our country in the mold of California socialism and place us well on the way to being like a bankrupt Venezuela. I pray that the American people see through this charade and rebuke him for his wanton disregard of financial accountability."