"When are we going to talk about the impact mounting debt is having on our budget and American families?"
"It added $2 trillion to the deficit and sparked an inflationary fire that has driven a massive rise in prices to all Americans."
"It is fair to say the country is in a different place since our last Members' Day and not a good place."
"Mr. McCord, President Biden's defense budget spends $3.1 billion on climate programs."
"We need accounting of resources like those left behind in Afghanistan that are now arming the Taliban."
"The national security threats at our border and around the world, the highest spike in prices in 40 years, skyrocketing energy costs--President Biden may see these as an inconvenient political problem..."
"So you did?"
"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."
"I also think that sending $1,400 checks to Japanese citizens living in Japan did not help stop COVID."
"You gave yourself $2 trillion in additional so called COVID relief funding on top of the $4 trillion Congress had already enacted."