Senator Romney: President Biden has proposed $6 trillion of new spending in his first 100 days.

Senator Mitt Romney (R-Utah) released this statement after President Biden’s address to a joint session of Congress. “You know what’s hard to do, it’s hard to live within your budget and do good things within your budget. What’s easy is to spend money like there’s no tomorrow. Unfortunately, the president has a lot of things he’d like to do, but he’s spending like crazy. He has proposed in his first 100 days six trillion dollars of new spending. That is a modern record, and put that in context. Six trillion dollars is about four times our total federal budget. That is an amazing amount of money, and it has the potential of jeopardizing our kids’ future and socking us with decades of interest costs. When you get down to the kinds of policies that unite the country, he says he wants unity—fantastic—but you’re not going to unify America if you’re only appealing to the liberal wing of your own party. So let’s get back to the job of governing. I hope he will do that, and we Republicans are ready to work with him.”