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TexasTowelie

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Sun Jul 25, 2021, 02:04 PM Jul 2021

Anti-infrastructure campaign rolls into South Florida as crucial 'Build Back Better' vote nears [View all]

'Let’s make sure we can all look back and say at a key moment, we did our part.'

As a make-or-break vote for the first chunk of President Biden’s “Build Back Better” infrastructure plan draws closer, a national campaign against it — “Stop the Spending Spree” — is rolling into South Florida next week.

Americans for Prosperity is coordinating a national campaign against the President’s spending plan on roads, broadband internet and other new government spending. It’s stopping in Fort Lauderdale Tuesday and then Miami on Wednesday.

“The Biden administration’s so-called ‘infrastructure’ proposal spends less than 5% on roads and bridges, and far more on placating Washington’s special interests,” Skyler Zander, AFP’s state director, said in a news release. “To pay for these egregious handouts, it calls for historic tax hikes that would slow the economy, hurt workers’ wages, and crush small businesses. We are looking forward to rallying with our grassroots activists against this massive government overreach.”

Read more: https://floridapolitics.com/archives/443104-anti-infrastructure-campaign-rolls-into-south-florida-as-crucial-build-back-better-vote-nears/

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