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On the recordAugust 24, 2021
Madam Speaker, this is a moment where I am hoping our friends on the left will keep a certain promise that many of you have made, Madam Speaker, because we have a long list of the promises from the President to leadership and to others promising that this spending will be 100 percent paid for. You already know we are going to have probably a continuing resolution with the omnibus. There is a trillion dollars of structural debt there. Okay. And the $1.2 trillion so-called bipartisan-- bipartisan in the Senate. Okay, when we actually do the honest math, it is not a quarter trillion of borrowing; it is about $500 billion of borrowing because a bunch of the pay-fors are fake. When we start looking at what Senate Finance and others--where are you getting the other $1.7 trillion on your $3.5 trillion of spending? Look, I am just asking you to keep a promise because when you add up all the new revenues, all the new receipts, all the new tax hikes, the corporate tax hikes that unemployed some million Americans in 24 months, the capital gains tax that loses money, where are you going to get all this cash that you have promised will be 100 percent paid for? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair again reminds Members to address their remarks to the Chair.
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David Schweikert
Republican · Arizona

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