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Businesses Need Workers

Floor Speech

Date: May 12, 2021
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Employment and Affirmative Action

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Mrs. McCLAIN. Madam Speaker, today, I rise to be the voice for business owners in my district, who, again, have been kicked while they are down.

This majority and President Biden insist people need more unemployment benefits. They don't. There is a record number of open jobs, more than 8 million, of which only 266,000 of those jobs have been filled. That means that this administration is incentivizing people not to work.

For President Biden to suggest that we need to spend another $4 trillion on the backs of our children and grandchildren to get back to work is insane.

The jobs are there. The incentives to take the jobs are not.

This nationwide problem is impacting Michiganders. In fact, the biggest issue that I hear from business owners in my district is not about COVID or mask mandates or vaccines. They need workers.

I am calling on the Speaker to actually go out into her district and learn what businesses actually need. They don't need more money. They don't need more stimulus. They need more employees.

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