I want to thank our witnesses, and I want to thank our chairman for his standing up and fighting.
I want to communicate to you some things from my district.
In order to achieve economic growth, is it better or worse to have a larger Federal bureaucracy?
The only thing more unimaginable than that is that $32 trillion in debt and the interest on that debt.
we must rein in wasteful, woke, and bloated bureaucracy and the out-of-control spending that created it.
his vision calls for the highest levels of sustained taxes, spending, and borrowing in the history of our country.
They understand the need to push back against Russia.
My constituents are, rightfully, questioning why U.S. taxpayers have sent more than $100 billion to Ukraine to defend it...
My constituents are rightfully concerned about the levels of contribution by European nations to the Ukrainian defense.
It cannot be in a world where the money sent by U.S. taxpayers is unaccounted for and used inappropriately.
My constituents are rightfully concerned about potential widespread waste, fraud, and abuse of moneys expended.
We can have that debate, but at the end of the day, true or false was the--
I just want to double down on this that for the record, for the American people to understand, we are at 19.6 percent.
We need to cut 2024 spending as compared to 2023.
I would love to get to a place, Ranking Member Boyle, where all of us could agree on the numbers, the facts, the path.
If we don't have a sense of urgency about the task before us, as I said, our children will not inherit the blessings of ...
Sanctioning a farmer without sanctioning that farmer's crops is not an effective strategy.
the longer we wait to start this work, the more drastic our choices will be.
