David Schweikert: “I am going to try to do something a little backward tonight from what I have typically done. One of my great…”

“I am going to try to do something a little backward tonight from what I have typically done. One of my great frustrations here is sitting on Ways and Means, having the Joint Economic Committee economists as part of my team, and the number of times this place makes promises that the experts around us say: You know, they are complete fraud. Then, somehow magically, we never sort of come back a couple years later and say: Hey, here is what you were promised when the Democrats did their Inflation Reduction Act. Here are the actual outcomes. Should we hold people to their own language? There are a couple of things I wanted to do here. I am going to walk through a few boards and try to give some examples of how this place engages in theater that is mathematically void, and what is the term? Oh, yeah, we lie to you. So how many remember a couple of years ago: We are going to put $80 billion into the IRS. Yay. And we are going to collect money on those people making $400,000 and up, and there were Members of this body, of the White House, and others saying crazy things. The press--excuse me--the scribes who basically, in many ways, should have to file with the Federal Elections Commission because many of the press around here act more like a PR department for the Democratic Party, says: Better tax enforcement could raise $700 billion over the decade. The White House in 2021.…”