[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 45 (Wednesday, March 13, 2024)]
[House]
[Pages H1173-H1174]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        STATE OF DELUSION SPEECH

  (Mr. MEUSER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)

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  Mr. MEUSER. Mr. Speaker, last week, President Biden claimed here in 
this House that the state of our Union is strong, but the American 
people disagree.
  From soaring inflation, the national debt, a catastrophe at our 
southern border, an assault on American energy, rising crime, and 
geopolitical chaos, the state of our Union, sadly, is not strong. It 
has been in decline for 3 years, 1 month, and 22 days.
  Americans feel the cost of inflation whenever they check out at the 
grocery store. They feel the anti-American energy agenda whenever they 
fill up their gas tanks as they remember the prices of January 2020.
  They see this administration's failure as they watch millions of 
migrants illegally cross our border and watch the world thrown into 
global conflict as a result of the policies of appeasement.
  The President has claimed that crime is improving. Not only is crime 
not down, but it is out of control. Americans, unfortunately, feel it 
and see it in our streets almost every day.
  What is needed is a recognition of the realities our Nation faces and 
a real plan to correct course. Rather than the state of the Union, 
President Biden's address was a state of delusion.

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