Brian Babin: “I thank my good friend from Louisiana for having this Special Order. Mr. Speaker, there are multiple crises. That is…”

“I thank my good friend from Louisiana for having this Special Order. Mr. Speaker, there are multiple crises. That is exactly right. It is nearly impossible to discuss President Biden's self-inflicted economic crisis without mentioning his excessive spending. I am not talking about money to strengthen our military or to make America more competitive in the world. Biden and the Democrats have no interest in that. This out-of-control spending is necessary only to appease the radical Democrat base who prioritize radical climate change policies without a care in the world for their consequences. As a result, inflation sits at a 40-year high and our national debt has increased by trillions of dollars. For years, my colleagues across the aisle have worked tirelessly to desensitize Americans to the word ``trillion,'' and they have succeeded for the most part because a trillion of anything is such a mind-boggling figure for the average human to wrap his mind around it. When I was elected to Congress in 2014, our national debt was $17 trillion. Fast-forward 8 years later, our national debt has topped $30 trillion. This should shock every American taxpayer, but it doesn't seem to. Allow me to put this into perspective. If you owed $1 trillion, and you decided to pay $1 per second until your debt was paid off, it would take you around 31,700 years to become debt-free. Now, multiply that by 30, for $30 trillion of our national debt.…”