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On the recordDecember 7, 2023
Mr. Speaker, I yield 5 minutes to the gentlewoman from Michigan (Mrs. McClain). Mrs. McCLAIN. Mr. Speaker, I thank Chairman Foxx for yielding time. I want to remind the American people that every time someone says the government pays, the government will pay, it is not the government because the government doesn't produce anything. When they refer to the government, they refer to you, the American taxpayer, will pay. The government doesn't pay. The American taxpayer pays. I want to clear that up just to make sure every time we hear the government will pay, that is really the hardworking American people. The government is just choosing how they spend the American taxpayers' money. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of this H.J. Res. 88, a Congressional Review Act resolution of disapproval I introduced to block President Biden's extreme student loan giveaway. This new regulation, ironically dubbed the SAVE plan, is the most expensive regulation in our Nation's history and is a backdoor attempt to ram the administration's socialist free college fantasy down the throats of hardworking taxpayers. It is their money. According to the Penn Wharton Budget Model, this plan will cost as much as $559 billion over the next decade, far exceeding the price tag of the President's illegal student loan bailout ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.…
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Virginia Foxx
Republican · North Carolina

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