Tracey Mann: “Today our national debt stands at $37 trillion. For years, elected officials from both sides of the aisle have come to…”

“Today our national debt stands at $37 trillion. For years, elected officials from both sides of the aisle have come to Washington ringing the alarm on our national debt, and rightly so. The only problem is, often they get to the Nation's Capital, and there is little to no appetite to make hard decisions to get our spending in check. At the start of President Trump's historic second term earlier this year, he did the unthinkable. He paused Federal spending, went line by line through the Federal budget, and seriously evaluated how we are spending our tax dollars. For some people in this town, it was heartburn. However, Mr. Speaker, Kansans in the Big First District welcomed this fiscal sanity. The reality is, our national debt is unsustainable. If every single household was to contribute and bring our debt to zero, we would each be responsible for $289,000. Consider that the average mortgage in America is about $245,000. No one in this body would allow a loved one to make continuously poor financial decisions like this. Why do we do it with our government? House Republicans have been clear that we would like to return to regular order, pass 12 individual appropriations bills, and get our spending under control. Despite this reality, the consensus among too many in Washington is that they would rather see President Trump fail than work together to fund the government responsibly.”