[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 104 (Tuesday, June 15, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H2751]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                        AMERICA DESERVES BETTER

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from 
Kansas (Mr. Mann) for 5 minutes.
  Mr. MANN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in fierce opposition to President 
Biden's proposed budget.
  When he released his budget just a few weeks ago, nearly 3 months 
later than any President in a transition year, by the way, President 
Biden reminded Americans of advice his father gave him years ago. 
``Don't tell me what you value,'' Biden's father told him. ``Show me 
your budget, and I'll tell you what you value.''
  If that is true, then Biden's $6 trillion budget reveals to us 
exactly what President Biden values: destroying America's oil and gas 
industry, prioritizing the rights of illegal immigrants over law-
abiding Americans, funneling foreign aid away from our longtime ally 
Israel, turning a blind eye to protecting the unborn.
  Under the Biden budget, President Biden suggests we spend our hard-
earned dollars fixing problems he created.
  He wants us spending $174 billion on electric cars, carports, car 
charging stations, and other subsidies to the electric vehicle market 
in a full-on attempt to replace the oil and gas industry; $40 billion 
to retain employees who lost their jobs after he blocked the Keystone 
pipeline and destroyed thousands of energy jobs; and a total of $36 
billion to combat climate change, bringing back the waters of the U.S. 
rule and mandating 30 percent of our privately owned land be locked in 
conservation practices. President Biden's budget is the progressive's 
Green New Deal in disguise, and America doesn't want anything to do 
with it.
  President Biden wants $2 billion to provide care for unaccompanied 
migrant children at our southern border after he put millions of 
innocent children in harm's way and encouraged immigrants to cross 
illegally. He wants no extension of funding to complete the already 
nearly finished wall system or money to enforce our immigration laws at 
the border and instead instated an executive order stopping 
construction on the very wall that keeps our country safe.
  President Biden wants $63.5 billion for international affairs 
spending, a 12 percent increase from 2022 that lacks specific defense 
funding for Israel, America's only democratic ally in the Middle East. 
His omission is clear and comes at a time when the terrorist 
organization Hamas launched hundreds of rockets at Israel in the last 
month alone and when Democrats are on the record for their anti-Semitic 
language and slurs.
  And President Biden refuses to protect our dollars from being spent 
on abortions or abortion services. Instead, for the first time in four 
decades, no such protection exists, a protection that 77 percent of 
Americans support and a protection even Biden supported for years 
before his Presidential campaign.
  On top of all this, President Biden claims his budget is partly in 
response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, but like the American Rescue 
Plan, it, too, fails to investigate the origins of COVID-19. Even more, 
the Biden administration won't commit that none of the budget requests 
would include funding for the research at the Wuhan lab.
  The economic disaster to follow from his reckless spending will 
cripple American families' purchasing power and leave future 
generations with the crushing burden of the national debt. It is time 
we hold President Biden accountable for a budget that would cause our 
Federal debt to reach 117 percent of gross domestic product by 2031, 
the highest level since World War II, and continue the record rates of 
inflation we are already seeing under President Biden.
  I ran for Congress with the intention of creating a better world for 
my children, our children, one where they don't have to pay President 
Biden's debts and suffer the consequences of irresponsible and 
egregious spending. America deserves better.

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