Wed Jan 21, 2015 AT 7:48 AM EST
Republicans in Congress had a simple response to President Obama’s new proposals which include $320 billion in new taxes: NO. Speaker John Boehner said, “All the president offered tonight is more taxes, more government, and more of the same approach that has failed middle-class families,” Newsmax reports. “These aren’t just the wrong policies, they’re the wrong priorities: growing Washington’s bureaucracy instead of America’s economy.”