Jodey Arrington: “Last week, the President stood in this Chamber and declared the state of the Union is good and that our lives are…”

“Last week, the President stood in this Chamber and declared the state of the Union is good and that our lives are better. For the sake of our country, I wish that were so, but, unfortunately, we know it couldn't be further from the truth. After 3 years of one self-inflicted disaster after another--border, crime spree, cost-of-living crisis, a more destabilized and dangerous world because of the weakness, the weak posture, the feckless foreign policies--we are supposed to believe somehow that life is better in America. President Biden wasn't able to suspend reality even in a State of the Union speech. Why? Because the American people know better. They know that under the reckless spending and failed policies of this President, their country has become weaker and more vulnerable, both at home and abroad. Madam Speaker, if you think that the State of the Union speech was disconnected from reality and the needs of the American people, read his budget. He just introduced it yesterday. In the midst of record spending-induced inflation, interest rates, and the cost of living that is crushing working families, and a fragile and uncertain economic future for the American people, and the slide toward socialism, the slide toward a sovereign debt crisis, here is his answer: Double down on the borrowing and the spending and the taxing.…”