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Mr. GOOD of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, I thank Mr. Roy for his leadership once again and in particular on this all-important issue of the fiscal and economic stability of our country. More than that, not just the financial part of it, which we cannot overstate--we can't overstate the harm done to our country from a spending standpoint with $32 trillion in national debt on the backs of our children and our grandchildren, $100,000 per citizen, but in addition to that, how that debt and how that spending has accumulated for the purpose of literally harming the American people.
We can't overstate how our own government has become weaponized against its own citizens, trying to control every aspect of our lives, trying to control decisions like whether or not we can have or use a gas stove; whether or not we can choose what kind of car we want to drive; whether or not we can heat or cool our homes the way that we want to; whether or not we can exercise our God-given, constitutionally protected Second Amendment rights; whether or not we can make decisions for ourselves on whether or not we can operate our business, earn a living, educate our children the way that we want to without the heavy hand of government coming in.
We have $32 trillion in national debt, $100,000 per citizen. What is this President's response with the budget proposal that he rolled out yesterday? To increase spending about 56 percent beyond where it was pre-COVID.
From $4.4 trillion in spending, this President wants to increase it by $2\1/2\ trillion to $6.9 trillion. That $6.9 trillion--for just 1 year, mind you--is about $20,000 per American citizen.
How many Americans today would vote to borrow and spend--we have to put ``borrow'' in front of all of it--to borrow and spend $20,000 on their personal credit card to do things that are not only not helpful to them but much of which is harmful to them on top of the $100,000 in national debt that we have per citizen today?
Thank God for Republicans who are going to come into the gap and stand on the wall to defend the American people and finally bring some fiscal stability to our country, cut the spending, and deal a blow against the woke weaponized government that is assaulting and harming the American people.
We are going to do that with the opportunity we have as we face the debt ceiling limit. We are going to utilize this opportunity of our newfound congressional House rules that are going to allow us to put reforms in place for not just this year and next year but for the future to put us on a path to fiscal responsibility.
I thank Congressman Roy from Texas for showing leadership, once again, on the most important, fundamental issues for our country.
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Mr. GOOD of Virginia. 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. We are spending money, literally, to try to ruin the country.
If you were setting out 2 years ago to try to ruin the country, what would you do differently than what this administration has done, while borrowing the money to do it?
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Mr. GOOD of Virginia. We couldn't imagine it at that time.
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Mr. GOOD of Virginia. We are borrowing an additional $150 million to send it to Mexico that is controlled by the crime cartels, so that they can utilize that funding to invade our southern border, with the individuals we are allowing to pass through their country trafficking drugs, human trafficking, sex trafficking, who knows what, hundreds of thousands every month. Yet, we are going to borrow $150 million to send it to them to help them do it.
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