[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 169 (Friday, November 15, 2024)]
[House]
[Page H6016]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 THE UNITED STATES' EXISTENTIAL THREAT REPRESENTED BY $36 TRILLION IN 
                             NATIONAL DEBT

  (Mr. GOOD of Virginia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. GOOD of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, I must bring attention, once 
again, to our Nation's existential threat represented by $36 trillion 
in national debt and another $2 trillion deficit this year.
  Yet in this very Chamber just a couple of days ago, every Democrat 
joined two-thirds of Republicans in adding $200 billion in new 
mandatory spending.
  So is our debt and our spending just campaign talking points?
  Is it just a slogan, or does it really matter?
  Do we really care about it?
  I will commend Senator Rand Paul from Kentucky who just yesterday had 
the courage to stand alone and block emergency spending because he said 
it needs to be paid for. What a concept, that we would pay for the new 
spending on top of the layers and layers of debt that is causing so 
much inflation, higher interest rates, and threatening the financial 
future of our kids and our grandkids.
  Why not cut the expansion of the IRS?
  Why not cut a trillion dollars in climate credits?
  Why not cut the tens of billions of dollars of COVID funds that are 
still not covered for?
  Why not cut the spending for the U.N. or UNRWA or the WHO?
  Mr. Speaker, there is so much low-hanging fruit. I am so thankful 
that we will have Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy looking at that in the 
new administration.

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