Jason Smith: “If we defeat the previous question, we will consider an amendment to the rule to replace the socialist $5 trillion…”

“If we defeat the previous question, we will consider an amendment to the rule to replace the socialist $5 trillion tax-and-spend reconciliation instructions from the fiscal year 2022 budget with a new call for committees to draft legislation to reduce the deficit, to combat runaway inflation and help get Americans back to work. This country has been through a lot in the past year under one-party rule by the Washington Democrats and President Biden. We have an inflation crisis; we have an energy crisis; we have a border crisis; and we have a supply chain crisis. Contributing to it all is a leadership crisis in the Oval Office. With all of these problems, you would think Democrats would finish the year addressing just one--just one--of those issues. But instead, Mr. Speaker, we are here on the last day of session for the year, and Democrats have chosen to spend this valuable time attacking former President Trump and his staff, attacking members of the Republican Conference, and they have even found room to include a $2.5 trillion increase to the debt ceiling. {time} 2120 In fact, since Speaker Pelosi took the gavel in the House in 2019, House Democrats have added more than $9 trillion--House Democrats since 2019 have added more than $9 trillion to the national debt, which is more than the combined deficits under all 72 years that Republicans have ever been in the majority. The American people, Mr.…”