Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell made the following statement Tuesday regarding the need to reduce federal spending, not maintain bloated Washington spending levels:

“The American people spoke loud and clear: stop the Washington spending spree and bring down the debt. Yet Washington Democrats can’t find a single dime of federal spending to cut, insisting on the status quo, even for a short-term spending bill. But keeping bloated spending levels in place and, predictably, proposing even more tax increases, is simply unacceptable.

"Washington has to stop the spending increases and start shrinking the ruinous federal debt. That's the key to getting the economy back on track and creating the conditions that will lead to private-sector job growth.”

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