senator rick scott said, "joe biden has officially plunged america into a recession, and how do democrats in congress respond? with massive spending and even more reckless spending. it's insane and what's worse is that we got to this point with bipartisan bad decisions. yesterday's announcement by joe manchin and chuck schumer showed again that too many senate republicans unfortunately trusted democrats and got duped. some are pretending to be shocked. it's not shocking at all. democrats have never met a tax increase they didn't like and joe manchin is a democrat. of course manchin is going along with schumer, biden and pelosi to push massive tax increases on americans as we face 9.1% inflation, debt over 30 trillion and enter a recession. this is yet another failure by too many politicians in washington to stand up against reckless spending and fight for real accountability for american families. democrats are destroying this country, and republicans cannot continue to endorse their reckless, inflation-fueling spending. "now, democrats will do two things: they'll say that the u.s. isn't in a recession and that their new, partisan tax-and-spending spree will reduce inflation. 