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David Schweikert is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Arizona's 1st congressional district since 2011. A member of the Republican Party, he has focused on issues such as fiscal responsibility and economic growth during his tenure in Congress. Schweikert has been involved in various legislative efforts aimed at reducing the national debt and promoting job creation in Arizona. He has also served on several committees, contributing to discussions on budgetary matters and financial services.
Let's actually walk through what this means. You are right now expecting that 17,200 or 17,400--there is a little dispute--the cut you are getting as an average couple in America in 9 years. Yea. Okay. Let's actually do that thing where we…
I fear--I despise the concept that the fraudsters get away with this and the small businesses actually end up in the position of being punished.
Tonight. We are actually going to continue on a theme. I am going to try to dial back sounding like a jerk tonight, but I have been trying to make a point on the scale of the debt, the level we are at, the misunderstanding on its growth…
I am going to yield to the gentlewoman from Florida such time as she may consume when she is ready. Madam Speaker, I thank you for your patience as the clock, as you know right now, sped up on us, and we are all running around like crazy…
Reclaiming my time, I apologize to Ms. Salazar for having to speed up our clock here. It is sometimes just the nature of when someone else on the Democrat side cuts their time short or didn't show up. Madam Speaker, as we start to go, we…
Tonight, I am going to actually have one positive and lots of things that are just terrifying, so let's have some fun with some math. Mr. Speaker, we often start with this board just because it helps everyone sort of visualize what we are…
To my friends who have the next time slot, I promise I will talk faster. Mr. Speaker, I have a series of boards, and I may save these for another week, but it just sort of talks about some of the spending that happened last year. Do you…
All right. I am going to go a little faster then. No one cares about percentages of debt to GDP. One of the reasons we do debt to GDP is when we talk trillions, often that is a distorted number because trillions in a time of high…
I have a lot of boards. I am going to try to get through them as fast as possible. I wish there was some way you could set off an alarm if I start speaking too fast because I always feel guilty when I do that. Once again, I have had far…
Actually, if 400, I think, was the baseline number, with the higher interest rates and the amount of borrowing, you could be approaching 600.
There are also other things going on. People don't realize, it is not just the $2 trillion of excess spending that has to be borrowed, how much of the debt has to be refinanced all the time. You actually have, let's say, $26 trillion of…
The number has actually been going up fairly dramatically. In the first 7 months just interest carry, just because the increase in interest, went up $108 billion.
Congressman Buck, one of the best ways to think about this--the budget window we are working on in functionally about 9 budget years, interest is going to be more than all of defense. That is already baked into the cake.
I am going to try to focus more on discretionary, just so people understand. The vast majority of our spending is on autopilot, but a lot of us have no understanding of how much the wheels have come off just this year, and this is so…
I want to do a couple of things, and what I am going to sort of walk through is what we are seeing in the numbers. There is a sense of theater around here that I am trying to break through, so let's see if we can have some fun with some…
These concerns are just as relevant today, and they should be fully considered before moving forward with this legislation.
I need a 24 percent payroll tax tomorrow and a 20 percent VAT tax tomorrow to stabilize U.S. sovereign debt to 97 percent of debt to GDP.
I can see some of the faces going, oh, God, they are going to let him speak for an hour. I saw those faces, but there is a lot to share. First, I tried to cut back on my coffee this evening, so, hopefully, my shared annoyance will be…
My last board, and then I intend to yield to my friend. Look, this is the chart I was going to end with. Remember how we have been talking about what is happening when we start to have more deaths than births? Understand, that 18-year…
We are going to actually sort of walk through a couple things we did last week. We are going to do it again because I got the feeling no one was listening. We had a joint economic hearing today, which, you know, I am blessed to be called…
As we get ourselves sort of set up here--the hazard when you use boards--I actually want to walk through a couple of things. If I don't make some folks mad, particularly on the other side tonight, I am not doing my job. How many of you…
I think it is insane you maintain your own servers when you have substantial portions of the Department of Defense on highly-encrypted cloud servers.
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