I thank the speaker and I do rise in opposition to the legislation that was just

sent to the United States House of Representatives from the United States Senate.

I just spent a good deal of time going around the country traveling to Iowa, New Hampshire,

South Carolina, you might imagine why, spoke to thousands of Americans. Not one of

them. Not one American said, please Congressman Roy, add more money to the debt. Please,

Congressman Roy, keep spending money we don't have. Keep spending deficit spending every

year bankrupting our kids and grandkids.

But that is precisely what we're doing yet again.

Kicking the can down the road.

That's what we do.

It's what we do best in this chamber. It's what we do best in this chamber.

It's what we do best in Congress.

It is why the American people are so frustrated

with this town, with the swamp, because it is a swamp

that is entirely not drained.

Donald Trump has surrounded himself now

and people around him have surrounded himself

with people who know how to implement policy and know how to implement his most authoritarian,

his most authoritarian instincts. And he's not, when he's not when he's elected he's not going to

bumble through the four years dangerously like he did in his first term if he's

elected again he's gonna have people in there who have already said

they're going after his political opponents already said

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