Folks, we don't have a taxing problem in this government, we have a spending problem.

The Trump tax cuts demonstrated that if you lower taxes, it grows the economy and increases the tax revenue.

So, through executive fiat they added goodness, 3 or 4, oh goodness, I guess it's about $1 trillion.

the bipartisan Farm Bill was passed out of the House Ag Committee, has a provision in the nutrition title which preserves SNAP benefits

No. You don't do well. You just missed the deficit this year by $0.5 trillion. That's not doing well.

If there's one thing clear from this meeting it's that my friends across the aisle have promised that they will raise your taxes.

Let me say that again, corporate profits rose five times the rate of inflation in that time period.

The inflation our Country has experienced...was a terribly difficult time for families.

You have had challenges kind of making ends meet.

Thanks very much. I will turn next to Mr. Lee.

I have been calling it greed-flation.

Roughly one half of all Americans live in a place where that is considered a childcare desert.

To be blunt about it, they have been ripping people off.

companies should be able to make a profit, but not by taking advantage of the average family.

We know that just as corporate price increases have affected you, changes in the local economy constrain consumers.

In the Inflation Reduction Act, we took on big pharma by finally allowing Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices.

It has to be a long term strategy that we need to consider developing childcare as a career to ensure that we have--we have trained, credible, available, and hopefully affordable childcare providers for our kids.

Years of work focused on what limited access to education, economic opportunities, health care resources, higher rates of poverty--what that means for so many of our indigenous peoples and the children as they are growing up.