[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 46 (Thursday, March 14, 2019)]
[House]
[Page H2734]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               OPPOSING PRESIDENT TRUMP'S BUDGET PROPOSAL

  (Mr. McADAMS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. McADAMS. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to the President's 
budget proposal, which would increase the Federal deficit from $779 
billion in 2018 to $1.1 trillion in 2020. If the goal is to rein in 
deficits and debt, this budget represents epic failure.
  I am a public servant who takes seriously the responsibility of 
spending other people's money. As a freshman Member of the Congress, 
the current deficit hole we have dug for ourselves wasn't my doing, but 
I was elected to solve problems, not make them worse.
  America's $22 trillion debt is a bipartisan problem. Democrats and 
Republicans have acted in a way that suggests that debt doesn't matter. 
But Utahns know that if it was their small business with books so badly 
out of balance, they would soon be out of business.
  Our government has been living beyond its means for years, and I 
believe it is wrong for one generation to forever burden generations 
yet to come.
  As a former mayor who had to balance, in bipartisan fashion, a budget 
every year, I know these choices aren't easy. But it is our job to roll 
up our sleeves, come together, and work out a budget that takes serious 
steps toward reducing the dangerous, unsustainable levels of debt in 
our country. Those steps are not in the President's budget.

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