We intend to do what the government was set up to do: spend public dollars supporting people and not corporations.

I thank my colleague from Minnesota for yielding and the opportunity to spend some time on this program. Mr. Speaker, today, the gap between rural and urban America has never been wider. As our Nation advances and urban communities…

I hope this can be the area where Congress can come together and ensure that our welfare policies will work for a new generation.

I would just say, in response to my friend's point about there being 60-plus reporting requirements already in place, that is part of the problem. When everybody is in charge, nobody is in charge. Currently, the oversight requirements are…

this body has spent to date $113 billion on the war in Ukraine and counting. Yet we do not have any direct oversight of any of the money that is being spent. My amendment is very simple. Let's create 1 government watchdog--not 2, not 3…

This is a first step in ensuring that welfare programs work for America's families by helping lift them out of poverty and instead of keeping them trapped.

Government policies have too often encouraged Americans not to work, resulting in increased dependency and millions of unfilled jobs.

U.S. support for Ukraine demonstrates to the dangerous and volatile regimes in Tehran, Pyongyang, and Beijing, and elsewhere, that the United States is prepared to meet any threat to its partners.

This bill is one more step toward fulfilling that promise.

Families like the one I grew up in and millions of others across America, they do the best they can to stretch every dollar to make ends meet.

The United States is leading international efforts to help Ukraine defeat Russia's abhorrent and utterly unprovoked invasion of its sovereign territory.

The President's new budget expands Democrats' harmful drug price control, which means higher prices for new medicines.

These seniors who prefer Medicare Advantage plans need assurance from the Administration that their cost, coverage, and access to care will not be impacted.

The President's 2024 budget doubles down on harmful policies that will only make access and affordability of care worse.

So I guess can we count on your support of efforts to make many of these provisions permanent that have proven to be effective and especially for patients themselves?

So we are spending taxpayer monies to subsidize people that are making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.

it is the highest levels of sustained spending, taxes, and deficits in the history of the United States.

President Biden's budget also cuts Medicare. For example, under current law Medicare faces 500 billion in cuts created solely by Democrats' spending spree.