'Stop Spending Money We Don't Have': Keith Self Decries Government Spending Packages

7 months ago

During remarks on the House floor, Rep. Keith Self (R-TX) spoke about government spending and inflation.

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00:00Mr. Speaker, the everyday people of America can't stand at this podium and talk about

00:11the crushing inflation Washington's spending has created.

00:17The single mothers struggling to put food on the table don't have a voting card to

00:23vote against the spending that fuels food price increases.

00:28Young families struggling to buy a home can't give a speech on the House floor about the

00:34surging home prices and mortgage rates.

00:38We are their voice.

00:41We are their representatives.

00:44Or at least we're supposed to be.

00:46But based on the tax and spend policies of the administration and the blowout omnibus

00:51packages forced through this Congress by many of my own colleagues, I'll add, I don't

00:57think Congress is doing a very good job listening to America.

01:02Mr. Speaker, this Congress has passed two massive spending packages, continuing the

01:07blowout COVID expansion and even leaving Nancy Pelosi's spending levels in the dust.

01:14And what did Americans get for it?

01:16What did they get for their money?

01:19They didn't get a secure border.

01:22They didn't get safer cities.

01:24And they sure didn't get a better economy.

01:28But you know who did benefit from the blowout spending?

01:32LGBTQ youth organizations, transgender organizations, abortion facilities, and oh yeah, the FBI

01:40got a brand new headquarters and expanded authority to spy on Americans.

01:46Mr. Speaker, the Washington establishment is addicted to spending my constituents' money.

01:53And it's never enough.

01:55We are $34 trillion in debt.

01:59And it's still never enough.

02:02And I have no doubt there are plans brewing right now in this murky swamp to clear the

02:07decks, that's the phrase, and use the upcoming appropriations to force through more spending,

02:14more left-wing poison pills, with nothing to actually secure our border and significantly

02:21cut spending to stimulate our economy.

02:24It doesn't have to be this way.

02:27Mr. Speaker, on behalf of my constituents in Texas District 3, I urge my colleagues

02:32to wake up, stop spending money we don't have, and commit to cut wasteful government spending.

02:39We must bring prosperity back to the hard-working Americans.

02:45And I yield back.

'Stop Spending Money We Don't Have': Keith Self Decries Government Spending Packages

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