[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 43 (Tuesday, March 7, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H1122]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     TIME TO STOP RUNAWAY SPENDING

  (Mr. JOYCE of Pennsylvania asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. JOYCE of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, if you lined up the $10 
trillion that the Congressional Budget Office reports we will owe as 
interest on our national debt, if you line that up in $100 bills, it 
would stretch from New York City to Los Angeles and then back again.
  This money does nothing to keep us safe, it does nothing to fund 
Medicare, and it does nothing to secure our border.
  This debt has caused skyrocketing inflation. It has decimated savings 
accounts. It has mortgaged our Nation's future all for short-term 
political gain.
  It is time to stop the runaway spending on Green New Deal priorities 
that fail to help the American people.
  When President Biden unveils his budget on Thursday, it must include 
a plan to reduce our debt. It must return to commonsense fiscal 
restraint and protect American taxpayers who cannot afford to keep 
wasting money on reckless budget proposals.

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