[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 60 (Tuesday, April 5, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H4158]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            BE CONCERNED ABOUT AMERICA, NOT OTHER COUNTRIES

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from 
Georgia (Mrs. Greene) for 5 minutes.
  Mrs. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, right now, the American people 
are over $30 trillion in debt because Congress is incapable of being 
responsible with the American people's hard-earned tax dollars.
  Over $30 trillion in debt and counting is a sum total that we will 
never be able to pay back in our lifetimes, our children's lifetimes, 
our grandchildren's lifetimes, our great-grandchildren's lifetimes, and 
so forth.
  Our dollar is on the verge of crashing. We are also on the verge of 
being the competitive currency with another foreign country's currency, 
possibly China. We are not in good shape financially.
  We also are looking at 7.9 percent inflation and rising, with nothing 
to stop it. We are looking at gas prices that are getting so expensive 
that people can hardly afford to fill up their gas tanks.
  Crime is out of control, and there is no reason for that. But coming 
up, on May 23, the Biden administration is going to suspend title 42, 
which is going to allow approximately an estimated 18,000 illegal 
aliens to come across our border.
  If you total this up, in over 5 months, we are looking at potentially 
over 2.7 million people coming in throughout the summer and into the 
fall. This is unsustainable. This is also against our Constitution and 
is completely irresponsible.
  Now, we have something coming up that Congress is going to be voting 
on, a 41-page COVID-19 supplemental bill because, for some reason, we 
are supposed to be spending more money that we don't have on future 
COVID and future COVID variants and future COVID vaccines because, 
really, that makes a lot of sense.
  Why is that an emergency? It is in the future.
  This bill, at $10 billion, of which up to $9 billion is for the 
Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority--what is the 
purpose of that? It is in the future. Is this gain of function 
research? We have a lot of questions, but we don't have answers.
  This is also--for future COVID, by the way--supposed to provide $750 
million in efforts to fight future variants to build future vaccine 
manufacturing capacity.
  Haven't our vaccine manufacturers made enough money when COVID 
vaccines were mandated across the country? They are still making a lot 
of money.

  We have already spent $4.6 trillion in resources on COVID, $4.16 
trillion in obligations, $3.63 trillion in outlays across 44 government 
agencies.
  The U.S. has made $825 billion in direct payments. The U.S. has 
issued $845 billion in loans. The U.S. has given $540 billion in 
grants, $50 billion in contracts, mostly through HHS and Defense, and 
so forth and on and more spending and more spending. Again, we are over 
$30 trillion in debt.
  Currently, the death rate for COVID is 1.22 percent. By the way, this 
death rate has continued to go down, thankfully. We are all thankful 
for that. Yet, Congress wants to spend more money for future COVID, for 
future vaccines, and for future variants when there is no need to do 
so.
  What we should be doing is we should be helping Americans get back to 
work. We should be helping small businesses.
  Most of all, we should be securing our southern border to protect our 
country and our national security interests, and to protect our people, 
instead of being completely concerned and wrapped up in another 
country's border and their people.
  While we are failing Americans here at home, we are too concerned 
about countries abroad.

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  Now, we have other serious problems. We have things that more 
Americans have been ignored on. There have been approximately 11,943 
deaths reported on VAERS, but no investigation. There have also been 
1,676 miscarriages reported on VAERS; 5,592 heart attacks reported on 
VAERS; 5,164 cases of myocarditis reported on VAERS; 13,230 permanently 
disabled cases reported on VAERS, yet no investigation. But we are 
supposed to spend $10 billion on future COVID, future variants, future 
vaccines?
  If we are going to spend some money, why don't we spend some money 
looking into these cases reported on VAERS?
  This is why I introduced the Justice for Vaccine Victims Act of 2022 
because there needs to be an investigation.

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