[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 202 (Wednesday, December 3, 2025)]
[House]
[Page H5001]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               PROVIDING AN UPDATE TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE

  (Mr. Strong of Alabama was recognized to address the House for 5 
minutes.)
  Mr. STRONG. Mr. Speaker, I rise to provide an 11-month update to the 
American people.
  While most media outlets struggle to be honest with the American 
people, under the administration of President Donald Trump, a 
Republican House, and a Republican Senate, America is back.
  It is a fact that inflation is down from 5 percent to 2.5 percent. 
Gas prices have hit a 4-year low, averaging $2.95 a gallon. Advanced 
manufacturing and industry are returning to U.S. soil.
  President Trump has secured over $8 trillion in investments that will 
fuel job growth and create opportunity. The stock market continues to 
set new all-time highs.
  It is a fact that Republicans are committed to making sure 
hardworking Americans keep more of what they earn. The Working Families 
Tax Cut delivered the largest tax cut for middle- and working-class 
Americans in history, like no tax on tips and no tax on overtime.
  It is a fact that the southern border is closed. Drug dealers, sexual 
predators, human traffickers, and those who illegally invaded our 
country during the Biden administration from over 160 countries are 
being returned to the country of their origin.
  Under Biden, our emergency departments and local hospitals became the 
preferred free healthcare provider for illegal aliens, driving 
healthcare costs through the roof while the American taxpayers footed 
the bill.
  We didn't need legislation to put America first. We needed a new 
President.
  It is a fact that the spirit of cutting waste, fraud, and abuse is 
alive in Washington, D.C. Funds being sent to foreign countries that 
hate America have been cut off. Republicans cut $100,000 for climate 
resilience in Ghana; cut $360,000 for gender nonconforming, nonbinary, 
two-spirit farmers in New York; cut $24 billion to USAID; cut $22 
billion from Health and Human Services to provide housing and cars for 
illegal aliens; cut $45 million for diversity, equity, and inclusion 
scholarships in Burma; cut $8 million to promote LGBTQ in Africa; cut 
$10 million for male circumcision in Mozambique; cut $20 million for 
the Arab ``Sesame Street'' in the Middle East; and we cut $600 million 
from National Public Radio. Free enterprise in America is alive and 
well.
  President Donald Trump is the President of peace, ending eight wars 
in 8 months. Tell me who in history has ever done this.
  The war between Israel and Hamas is over. The hostages were returned 
home. The Iranian nuclear program has been set back for decades, and 
the Middle East is more stable than it has been in years.
  To gain peace through strength, we have invested in America's 
national defense. We have increased pay for our troops. We are making 
generational investments in our defense industrial base. We are filling 
our stockpiles. We are making our soldiers the most lethal fighting 
force the world has ever seen.
  We will never apologize for keeping America safe. Thankfully, Mr. 
Speaker, the people of America are now seeing through Biden's 4 years 
of smoke and mirrors here in D.C.
  It is a fact that the Clinton-Steele dossier was proven a hoax.
  It is a fact that the Department of Justice was weaponized against 
President Trump.
  It is a fact that the Democrats' so-called Inflation Reduction Act 
raised the United States debt to more than $38 trillion. It raised 
inflation to its highest level in 40 years.
  It is a fact that Biden's Green New Deal was nothing more than 
another scam on the U.S. taxpayers, and ObamaCare, known as the 
Affordable Care Act, is not affordable to anyone in America.
  It is a fact that Space Command is coming to Redstone Arsenal in 
north Alabama and the Golden Dome is on the horizon.
  It is a fact that President Trump and our Republican majority is 
making America better for the people. America is back.

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