Jodey Arrington

With all due respect to my friend and colleague, we are trapping millions of people in poverty and dependence on the government because we are not incentivizing people to move up and out of welfare so they can realize their greatest…

When President Biden negotiated the fiscal reforms in the debt ceiling in 2011, he said he was pleased and thankful to do it. He called it a normal process. He said that you have got to compromise, didn't like the my-way-or-the-highway…

The last time we had a significant fiscal reform it came through debt ceiling negotiations that were led by no other than President Joe Biden in 2011. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from New York (Mr. Lawler), my good…

My colleagues act like there are no alternatives for funding cuts and savings, like there is no waste, woke, and bloat in the Federal Government. The President himself has issued 800 executive orders totaling $1.5 trillion. One of those…

You will hear many of the tired, old, false choices like hungry children, struggling families. I would remind you and the people of our great country who are experiencing sustained levels of 40-year inflation, who are struggling to put…

You are going to hear about a number of vulnerable people, communities that get Federal funding, but you will not hear, I bet, anything about the most vulnerable group of people in this country, and that is the next generation of Americans…

Again, with all due respect to my colleague from Texas, Democrats will act as if these are the choices, but they are false choices because they could choose to defund the moneys that came from Democrat earmarks to companies that create…

The Republican tax cuts gave us unprecedented growth and prosperity. It lifted 6 million people out of poverty and created the lowest poverty rate in the history of our great Nation. President Biden's budget recently has the highest levels…

Let me say how blessed I feel to serve alongside my ranking member. I appreciate his thoughtful comments, and we are going to do a lot of great things together. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Carter), my…

Unfortunately, I was unable to be present for one of today's votes. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 188. ____________________

More is said than done, and we have got to start getting to doing instead of just talking.

If we don't have a sense of urgency about the task before us, as I said, our children will not inherit the blessings of liberty and opportunity.

America is flying blind in mountains of debt and without a navigation system.

We need a constitutional amendment that limits debt as a percentage of the economy.

I certainly don't feel like the President's proposed budget does it. I don't see a concrete plan there.

I would love to get to a place, Ranking Member Boyle, where all of us could agree on the numbers, the facts, the path.

the Fiscal State of the Union is rapidly deteriorating and that the path that we are on is just completely unsustainable.

We got to take a position, and I respect my colleagues for putting some of their thoughts on paper.

What is it going to take to get people's attention?

Does it make any sense to be on track to have interest be the largest Federal program?

The United States is a declining great power and China is rising.

We need to cut 2024 spending as compared to 2023.

The only thing more unimaginable than that is that $32 trillion in debt and the interest on that debt.

The President's budget proposes the highest sustained levels of taxes, spending, and deficits in the history of the United States.

We believe that is a big problem, and we believe we can't get to the debt and we can't guarantee our children that blessing of security, and a stable economy, and future without doing it.