Glenn Grothman: “I have seven amendments in the en bloc, and I will talk on two issues, in general, that cover, I think, all of the…”

“I have seven amendments in the en bloc, and I will talk on two issues, in general, that cover, I think, all of the amendments. The first thing is an overall concern of spending. It is a lot easier to break an economy than to fix an economy. And the American Rescue Plan and the very high-spending infrastructure bill--between them, spending over $3 trillion--I think is the primary reason for the huge inflation we are having to deal with today. Look at these underlying bills--the T-HUD bill, up 12 percent; financial services--in general government up 17 percent--these programs have to be held at an even or slight decrease level for years to make up for the damage that was done with those two big bills. I am not going to say there wasn't damage done before that. I think a little bit of the COVID bills that were originally signed by the prior President were not exactly the most frugal things either, but everybody knew at the time this was a problem. And my amendments are along the lines of not destroying programs, not taking out programs altogether, but going back to the amount that was spent last year, or the amount that was spent in President Obama's final year. I sometimes use President Obama's final year to show that I am not being reckless here, but what I am saying is, there ought to be a little bit of restraint in the Committee on Appropriations and a little bit of restraint of the new bills coming out.…”