The only person less thrilled than President Joe Biden about his frequent comparisons to former President Jimmy Carter is Carter himself. To America, the comparison is clear: Biden is dragging the United States from crisis to crisis, causing rising prices on everything from gas to lettuce and crippling inflation, laying the ground for a national security collapse, and jeopardizing our global standing on financial and economic fronts.

Following a traditional Democratic playbook, Biden is attempting to spend his way out of his failures and weak decisions. The proposed $4.3 trillion reconciliation bill, in hand with the $1.2 infrastructure package, amounts to an outrageous $5.5 trillion reckless spending bundle that would fundamentally change the federal government’s role in the U.S.