Jodey Arrington: “To my colleague across the aisle, they need to get back to work. Only in Washington, D.C., and only with this President…”

“To my colleague across the aisle, they need to get back to work. Only in Washington, D.C., and only with this President are we operating with COVID as a national emergency. The only national emergency coming out of Washington is the economic disaster from the failed economic policies and the reckless spending of my colleagues. It has created an inflationary firestorm, and people can't sustain it. Soaring interest rates, an economy teetering on recession, and $5 trillion of debt that have us dangerously close to the precipice of a debt crisis is an emergency. Our constituents across America have to go back to work. They have to take their kids to school. Somebody has to teach them. Somebody has to save a patient or serve a customer. They don't live in this fantasy world of Washington. My colleagues, unfortunately, have used the public health emergency in large part not to protect the public from COVID but to promote the big spending, Big Government bailout agenda. What I am talking about is this, in the name of COVID, bailing out student loans that cost taxpayers a trillion dollars, bailing out schools that don't open their doors to their students. Bailout after bailout, that is what this is about. While Democrats are jamming us with all these bailouts in the name of COVID, taxpayers can't get their Social Security benefits and their tax returns or their passports. You heard the stories. Here is my question. It is a simple one.…”