Jason Smith

There is nothing in this budget that acknowledges or seeks to rectify those mistakes.

Maybe from the prior $2 trillion COVID bill we shouldn't have used $783 million in stimulus checks to convicted prisoners, including the Boston Marathon Bomber.

I will just say we found numerous examples and my team would be more than happy to show that less 9 percent of the $2 trillion actually went toward killing the virus.

How does spending $2 million of taxpayer dollars on planting trees in Syracuse, New York help fight COVID?

Such failures were not the result of a lack of funding... The sad truth is that the President's budget fails to address the crises his Administration has created.

You gave yourself $2 trillion in additional so called COVID relief funding on top of the $4 trillion Congress had already enacted.

Democrat policies have created multiple crises: the highest spike in prices in 40 years, gas prices over $4 a gallon, a violent crime crisis, school closures that have drastically harmed our children, and so many other items. President…

Spending $73 trillion just seems like it is only going to fuel the inflation fire.

The American people are not going to buy this budget--because frankly we can't afford it.

I think it's probably a good time to retire that word.

What policies in this budget brings it down were inflation will be at 2 percent?

Last Friday marked the 1-year anniversary of the Biden bailout bill. This $2 trillion package has directly led to worker shortages, billions in waste, and the worst inflation in 40 years. The Biden bailout didn't rescue our economy. It…

The American people have a lot of reasons to be upset with the direction of our country.

The very least Congress can do is we can show up for work.

They elected us to do a job, to have robust debate, and to make tough choices to take real action in Congress.

This isn't just a wrong way to govern, it is completely backwards.

In fact, over 17,000 votes, over 17,000 votes, almost 10 percent of all votes cast in the House last year was by proxy.

And I fear that they will be crowded out. That is why I absolutely reject the idea that federal government should take over our preschool programs.

To help women thrive in a post-pandemic economy, Washington needs to stop with the permanent pandemic narrative.

Under President Trump earnings for women grew substantially and more so than earnings for men.

The data does not lie. It tells a clear story about how damaging lockdown policies... have been for women.

Under President Biden earnings for women have gone down by 2.6 percent.

Under President Biden's economic policies, earnings for women have gone down by 2.6 percent.

More often than not these actions were not backed up by science, but more an assumption that Americans couldn't be trusted to make the best decisions for themselves.

Before proceeding further, my fellow Republicans on this Committee and I, we sent you a letter over two months ago calling for an oversight hearing on the $2 trillion of so called COVID-19 relief.