On the recordApril 4, 2025
Mr. President, for 4 years, America has watched as Joe Biden and the Democrats ran our country and our economy into the ground. That is what we have seen in the last 4 years. And every measure shows it: 10 million illegal immigrants, $5 trillion in wasted Washington spending, the worst inflation in 40 years, energy prices rising over 30 percent, a weak and failed foreign policy. That is what the American people saw over the last 4 years. In November, Americans chose a new path. Senate Republicans promised to get America back on track, and we are delivering. I was at the Rose Garden on Wednesday and heard President Trump talk about our budget. He gave it his complete and total endorsement. So, today, the Senate budget is the building block for our bold Republican agenda. It fulfills our promises to secure the border, to rebuild our economy, and to restore peace through strength. Most importantly, it represents, in every way, a 180-degree turn from the deadly, destructive liberal failures of the past 4 years. First, the Republican budget, what does it do? It gets rid of the waste that is out there--not Medicare, not Social Security, not Medicaid. We want to protect those vital programs. We want to preserve them. We need to preserve them for the people who they were intended to serve and who need them the most.…





