The federal debt has risen to more than $31 trillion. Since Biden took office, it's almost up $4 trillion.

So here's the numbers. So, the population in the last five years has gone up 1.8 percent, and your budget would take the budget up 55 percent.

So here's the numbers. So, the population in the last five years has gone up 1.8 percent, and your budget would take the budget up 55 percent.

So, the population since 2019 has gone up 1.8 percent. How much do you think your proposed budget has gone up from the 2019 budget?

So, the question yeah, is like what do we spend per person?

The federal debt has risen to more than $31 trillion. Since Biden took office, it's almost up $4 trillion.

So why would--why would we only have a six million increase in the number of Americans since 2019, but we have a 55 percent increase in our budget?

Do you believe excessive government spending, running big deficits, causes inflation?

I think you have an impossible job. I can't imagine trying to defend a $6.8 trillion budget.

Thank you for the opportunity to speak before you as ranking member with Chairwoman Foxx to speak in support of our bipartisan budget for the House Education and Workforce Committee.

In sum, the minority on the Education and Workforce Committee remains committed to our legislative responsibility to put people over politics.

I ask that the previously scheduled rollcall vote start immediately. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without objection, it is so ordered.

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He's always sort of backed up Biden. So this is what he's doing. He's backing up Biden again. He doesn't believe that we ought to have a plan.

No one that I know of wants to sunset Medicare and Social Security. But what we're doing is we don't even talk about it. Medicare goes bankrupt in four years. Social Security goes bankrupt in 12 years.

I hope my colleagues on the committee will stop putting--will put--stop putting politics over people and put people over politics.

In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if denied the opportunity of an education.

I ask for the yeas and nays. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second. The clerk will call the roll. The legislative clerk called the roll.

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