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David Schweikert: Last week I promised I was going to do something a little more positive tonight. It is complicated because I basically…

On the recordDecember 12, 2023
Last week I promised I was going to do something a little more positive tonight. It is complicated because I basically have a compulsion. Being from Arizona, I sit on an airplane 10 hours a week; 5 there and 5 back. I use these news aggregators, and I collect articles. Afterwards, my staff and I do follow-up and research. I just gathered up some of them the last couple days. These are positive things happening in our society, but one of the number one reasons I am going to show them is they are things that actually could make our lives better, make us healthier as a society and assist with, as you know, my fixation on the debt. Before we start to actually focus on the debt and deficit--and I am going to try to minimize my sarcasm, but you have got to give me a moment here--we should be very proud of ourselves. We did something very special today that we have never done before other than in the middle of COVID. Over the last 2 months, our borrowing has increased so much that we are at $80,600 a second. We did it. I am so proud of us. I knew we could actually spend ourselves into oblivion. We did it, we crossed $80,000. We are at $80,000 a second, and we are only a few ticks away from getting to $7 billion a day. When I think about the fussing that goes on here on the floor where we are knifing each other for this or that, unless it is covering almost $7 billion in savings, that day we actually went negative. Just a point.…
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David Schweikert
Republican · Arizona
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Dec 12, 2023

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