Jim Banks: “My amendment is simple. It would reduce spending in this division by 14 percent, the amount that is needed to avoid…”

“My amendment is simple. It would reduce spending in this division by 14 percent, the amount that is needed to avoid busting the budget caps and preventing sequestration, which would compromise our national security. This division would spend $1.3 billion more than the 2019 enacted level. In their quest to spend every taxpayer dollar from this generation and our future generations, my friends on the other side of the aisle have proposed spending packages that in total will bust the budget caps by nearly $90 billion. While my colleagues may be willing to put national security at risk to fulfill budget-busting policy promises, I will not. Madam Chair, I urge my colleagues to support my commonsense amendment, and I reserve the balance of my time.”