18 posts from Tuesday, March 28, 2023

The message from House Republicans to President Biden is clear. There will be no increase in the debt limit in the absence of significant and meaningful spending cuts. I am very proud that House Republicans ran against the inflation that has crushed American families. And this today represents the most specific detail in our plan to stop that inflation. American people know that inflation is often induced by excessive government spending. And so we have laid out a plan represented in this body of legislative work that doesn't cut Social Security, that doesn't cut Medicare, but that attacks a woke and weaponized government that the American people should not continue to have to fund at the expense of their own economic security and the economic security of future generations. Inflation is still stubbornly high. Spending is rising. We have banks failing. And we've reached the debt limit. It seems like a perfect time to assess the things that are no longer necessary for us to spend funds on. I am particularly pleased that in this plan, in the messaging from the House Freedom Caucus and even in Speaker McCarthy's letter to President Biden today, I see reflected my call for work requirements on Medicaid and on a number of the social safety net programs where we have able-bodied, childless adults who could go to work and they choose not to. Well, I don't think hardworking Americans should be paying for all of the social services for people who could make a broader contribution and instead are couch potatoes. So thank you, Chairman Biggs, for this exquisite detail. Thank you to my colleagues for laying out these cuts. And I would turn the mic over to my colleague Eli Crane from Arizona.

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