Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I thank my friend from Oklahoma for yielding. My, my, how times have changed. How many times have we been sitting on the floor of the House listening to our colleagues on the other side of the aisle saying that a CR is the greatest thing since sliced bread; we must have the CR? That is because when some of us were saying: Wait a minute, Mr. President, wait a minute, President Biden, maybe we should actually secure the border of the United States instead of letting millions of people flood in and kill Americans and let fentanyl flood into our communities. So when we wanted to secure the border and we dared to say the funding should actually reflect that and we threatened to actually have a fight on spending, then my colleagues on the other side of the aisle said: CR, we have got to have a CR, our precious CR. Mr. Speaker, here we are. What are we doing? Our colleagues oppose the CR. Why? It is because we would have spending frozen for 6 months down about $7 billion, but, importantly, allow DOGE and allow our friends in the administration to continue to expose the absurdity of Federal spending. How about $1.5 billion to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion at Serbia's workplaces; $70,000 for a production of a DEI musical in Ireland; $2.5 million for electric vehicles in Vietnam; $47,000 for a transgender opera in Colombia; and $32,000 for a transgender comic book in Peru?…”