Political Quotes

“Clearly not. And the loss of trust and confidence to the degree that it has been lost in the last 2 years in our Federal Government, in our election system, in our government agencies, in even our department of injustice, I would call it, is just so damaging to the future of our country. How do we get that back? How do we restore it? We start by not funding it, not funding those agencies, those bureaucracies that are perpetuating such harm on the American people. The gentleman made the point earlier today so well, that we talk about going back to pre-COVID spending at $4.4 trillion. At that point, that was record spending in the history of the country. That was leading us to some, at that point, maybe $25 trillion in national debt, an untold amount that we haven't had since World War II, that was pre- COVID. That was out of hand. That was out of control. It is just this President who has taken it to a new level; $10 trillion in new spending in the first 2 years of an administration has never happened before in the history of the country. But it is not just the dollars, which if this was good spending, meaning things that we thought were justified, if you will, or positive things, we don't have the money, we can't afford it, we are bankrupt. But worse than that, we are spending money, literally, to make our military weaker. We are spending money, literally, to keep our border open to the Mexican crime cartels. We are spending money, literally, to harm our kids in schools.…”