Middle Class Will Get Stuck With Bill for Biden’s Spending, Rep. Bryan Steil Says

As Americans experience inflation at a rate not felt in four decades, the Biden administration continues to promote a multitrillion-dollar social spending package.

"Our spending is already out of control," Rep. Bryan Steil, R-Wis., says, adding that "new government spending is only going to exacerbate [inflation] and make it worse."

In an effort to get spending under control and inflation rates down, the second-term congressman says, lawmakers should "completely kill this bill."

The House passed the multitrillion-dollar spending package in November and Senate Democrats are working to gain the votes needed to pass it before the end of the year.

Steil joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" to discuss the likelihood that congressional Democrats will secure final passage of the social spending bill and what steps lawmakers should take to stop rising inflation rates.

Steil also discusses how small businesses in his home state of Wisconsin are fairing amid economic challenges and after the riots that struck parts of the state last summer.

We also cover these stories:

• The tornado that tore through Kentucky late Friday and into Saturday claimed at least 70 to 80 lives, officials say.
• The Supreme Court declines to decide whether Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers violated the First Amendment by barring a conservative think tank from attending his press conferences.
• California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he will empower citizens to enforce a ban on the sale and manufacturing of "assault weapons."

Listen to the podcast below or read the lightly edited transcript.