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I compliment President Trump and DOGE for exposing waste and abuse in foreign aid spending. It boggles the mind to think that some in Congress defend spending $2 million on sex changes in Guatemala, thousands on an LGBT opera in Colombia…
President Trump has pledged to balance the budget. I want to help him. I want to help him with this task. But to balance the budget requires much less spending than this current bill entails. Our national debt now exceeds $36 trillion…
There was a collective courage of that group that changed the world.
When those individuals marched, there wasn’t one voice. There was a collective courage of that group that changed the world.
I haven't had a single business person or individual in my state come up to me and say, the tariffs are a good idea.
There are stories coming out talking about cars costing $10,000 more. And, of course, we’re worried about bourbon.
Nobody at home is coming up to me and saying please put tariffs on.
Dramatic tariffs could be devastating to the economy.
Three times I’ve had a challenger who tried to be more MAGA than me.
Someone thinks they can control my voting card by threatening my re-election. Guess what? Doesn’t work on me.
Unless I get a lobotomy Monday that causes me to forget what I’ve witnessed the past 12 years, I’ll be a NO on the CR this week.
It amazes me that my colleagues and many of the public fall for the lie that we will fight another day.
Unless I get a lobotomy Monday that causes me to forget what I’ve witnessed the past 12 years, I’ll be a NO on the CR this week.
To make them real, a sense of permanence, a sense of legitimacy, they’re going to have to go be voted on by Congress.
I don’t think they’re real until we vote on them.
I don't believe anyone's calling for mass deportations.
I'll vote against a clean CR that funds everything in 2025 at 2024 levels because: 1. @SpeakerJohnson isn't following the provision in law that would have cut everything by 1% if the CR extended past April.
In order to make it real, in order to make it go beyond the moment of the day, it needs to come back in the form of a rescission package.