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Louie Gohmert: It is a bit of a segue here between things you were talking about earlier in the last half hour and all three of you…

On the recordSeptember 29, 2022
It is a bit of a segue here between things you were talking about earlier in the last half hour and all three of you have been mentioning, and that is when you talk about the $70 billion that has been provided to Ukraine for the war with Russia, if you look at the amount of increase in fuel costs that this administration caused, it drove up the price of oil, the price of natural gas so much that Russia made, last I saw, over $60 billion more than they had before. This administration is really responsible for funding both sides of the war between Russia and Ukraine: The $60-plus billion that Russia got because Biden's actions increased the cost of fuel, and then the $70 billion that we appropriated to Ukraine. You go, this is nuts that they would be doing that. Then you look at who is getting hurt, and you mention the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. It is down to its lowest point in decades because this President was trying to cover for his disastrous energy policy. So the millions of barrels that the Trump administration put in there so we would have it for an emergency, like a hurricane and other things, that is all gone, trying to cover for Biden's own disastrous policies. The American public, they see the price of gasoline coming down some, but people need to understand what this is all about. It is what it has always been about, power in the hands of a small group of elitists and everybody else, like in the Middle Ages for many ages.…
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Louie Gohmert
Republican · Texas
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Sep 29, 2022

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