GOP Rep Crane says he’ll ‘take all the slings and arrows’ of shutting down gov’t to win largest spending decrease in decades
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🗓️ 19 September 2023
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Arizona Congressman Eli Crane discusses the U.S. surpassing $33Trillion in debt today and the likelihood of a federal government shutdown. Crane says that the shutdown is about so much more than just going against Republican leadership but is about giving government accountability after years of the American people knowing there’s not only a two-tiered system of justice but also “two levels of financial accountability.” Crane comments, that even with the current plan of 8% decrease in discretionary spending, the largest cut in decades, it’s not “enough.” Saying, he and his other House Freedom Caucus members “understand the financial crisis that this country is in, and the only way that this town will ever change is, is if they're forced to change. And that's why it requires many of us to hold the line and say no, and stand in the gap and take all the slings and arrows and that's what we're doing.”
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| 0:27.6 | Hello America and happy Tuesday. Wow, what a week it's been and it's only Tuesday. Just think about that. Put that into your philosophical side for a second. Wow, it's Tuesday. |
| 0:47.0 | It feels like a whole week of work has happened. A lot of drama going on across this country. |
| 0:52.0 | The budget negotiations are in red hot mode, Republicans fighting with themselves, Democrats and Republicans always fighting against each other. |
| 1:00.6 | And there is no clarity at how this is going to come out, but I do want to say something that is air or fuel. |
| 1:06.2 | I've been in this town a long time, more than 30 years. |
| 1:09.9 | I have seen budget negotiation after budget negotiation and the same way every time, which is that, |
| 1:17.5 | Oh, this is the year we're going to cut spending. Oh, we didn't do it this year, but we'll do it next year. |
| 1:21.6 | Trust us in year after year, we're public and Democrat. |
| 1:24.4 | Didn't matter who was in charge since the last balance budget. |
| 1:27.8 | We had in the late 90s between Newt Gingrich and Bill Clinton. |
| 1:30.4 | And of course, what was a very good economy back then, we have been chronically in debt. |
| 1:34.4 | And today, the debt clock passed a number that I would never in my lifetime imagined we would be talking about. |
| 1:41.8 | $33 trillion, $33 trillion in accrued national debt. |
| 1:48.4 | Nearly all of that, but the majority of it in the last 20 years. |
| 1:52.4 | So this generation, the people that you see on the stage today, when you see a Chuck Schumer or Mitch McConnell, |
| 1:58.8 | they have been the people that presided over the greatest amassment of debt, |
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