    [Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 39 (Thursday, February 27, 2025)]
    [House]
    [Pages H890-H891]
    From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

                          BEING TRUTHFUL ABOUT BUDGETS

      (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for
    1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
      Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, this week, we made an important step in
    passing the budget resolution in order to carry out the business of the
    House for the American people.
      As we get into the budget reconciliation process, which is going to
    be a positive one for getting spending under control, we also need to
    have a lot more truth surrounding what is going to be happening in that
    process.
      For more than I would like to have heard the last week, week and a
    half, 2 weeks, we keep hearing the same rhetoric that Republicans are
    going to cut Medicare, SNAP, Medicaid, Social Security, all of these
    things. Nowhere in that budget reconciliation document does it say
    that. In the resolution, nowhere does it say that.
      We need not lie about what we are doing around here in order to gain
    political points. We actually should be sitting down at the table
    together and looking at how we can make these programs work better for
    longer.
      Social Security is going to be in big trouble within 7 or 8 years. If
    we want to have solutions to that, why don't we sit at the table
    together and figure

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    these things out instead of lying about it?

      We are trying to achieve better budgets and get closer to balancing
    the budget than what we have had the last 4 years. Why don't we be
    truthful in this process instead of the nonsense?

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