Sen. John Kennedy Warns: If You Don’t Believe This, ‘Then You Shouldn’t Be Driving’

Craig Bannister | January 29, 2025
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Senator John Kennedy (R-La.) singled out those he thinks “shouldn’t be driving,” during his remarks on the Senate floor Tuesday.

Kennedy warned that the U.S. is “headed for a multiple-vehicle pileup” caused by the mutually essential needs to extend the tax cuts enacted during President Donald Trump’s first term while also cutting federal government spending.

If the Trump tax cuts aren’t extended, taxes will go up by $4.3 trillion, with 60% of the increase hitting middle class and lower income Americans, Kennedy cautioned.

Meanwhile, the U.S. national debt has topped $36 trillion, or $102,000 per citizen, the senator noted, stressing the need to spur economic growth.

“I don’t want to blame it all on President Biden, but, if the shoe fits, wear it, Cinderella,” Kennedy said, regarding the nation’s unprecedented debt fueled by wanton spending.

To make matters worse, at the same time that it cuts overall spending, the U.S. government needs to increase what it spends in some areas, such as national defense, Kennedy said.

Sen. Kennedy urged people to go home and do what they need to do to put the nation’s dilemma into perspective:

“So, I hope all the folks today will go home and take off their Batman t-shirts, wash them [because they’re] probably a little sweaty.

“I hope everybody will go home - those who drink, have a cocktail - take their meds and put this all in perspective. That's what that OMB memorandum (on excessive spending) was all about.”

Kennedy then closed with his vehicular warning:

“If you don't believe we're going to have to cut spending substantially, then you shouldn't be driving.”