Column
The NDAA - another D.C. dish du jour
I often get asked why things don’t change in D.C. Why are we so far in debt as a nation? Why can’t we stop spending so much money? Why does so much garbage become law? Why can’t you deep-six the deep state?
The answer to all these questions is simple: there are more members of Congress happy to continue with “business as usual,” and not enough willing to take the hard votes and say “enough is enough.”
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Biden's three lies
Last week, the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees received a troubling response to our subpoena of Hunter Biden. House Republicans want Hunter Biden to answer to the American people about his father’s involvement in his business dealings. Because Hunter Biden is used to getting a sweetheart deal, he has refused to sit for a traditional deposition and has only agreed to a public hearing where he has the opportunity to plead the Fifth.
Biden's Iran problem
As we give thanks for our many blessings this week, I am thinking of the 240 hostages taken by Hamas, and their families praying for them to be released. Those hostages include 33 children and at least nine Americans. The prospect of celebrating holidays without knowing if your loved one is safe is devastating, and it’s disappointing that this horror is partially a product of Biden’s foreign policy failure.
Weaponized, wasteful bureaucracy
In 2022, when I held fifteen town halls across my district, I expected to hear about the cost of gas and groceries or our open southern border (and I certainly did!), but the number one concern I heard was the weaponization of our government against its own citizens.
The speakership fight
This week, we elected the 56th Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson from Louisiana. As you likely know, electing a Speaker was not an easy task. This all began last month when we faced a possible government shutdown because Congress had failed, once again, to pass all 12 appropriations bills to fund the government. Due to the missed deadline, some Republicans voted in favor of a motion to vacate the chair and Speaker McCarthy was ousted.
Standing with Israel
This week, we all watched in horror as the State of Israel came under unprovoked attack from a terrorist group that is celebrating the beheading of infants, raping of women, and cold-blooded murder of hundreds. The death count is now in the thousands, and 27 Americans are among them. This attack is the largest single-day mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust.
The power of the purse
If you have a working cellphone or a television, you likely already know that the government is set to shut down on Sunday. What you may not know, thanks to the work of our biased national media, is why. And the answer is far more sobering than the shutdown itself.
Border crisis boiling point
This week, it was revealed that more than a dozen immigrants, from Uzbekistan and other countries that were allowed into the US after seeking asylum at the southern border had the help of a human smuggler with ties to ISIS. The FBI is scrambling to figure out the location of these individuals and what threats they may pose to Americans.
Biden's busted budget
Our country is nearly $33 trillion dollars in debt, and it’s time for the government to actually do something about it. We know Bidenomics is not the answer. Americans’ average household spending has increased, and their average real wages have decreased since Biden took office. During the August work period, I heard from constituents who were struggling to afford their monthly bills, gas, and groceries.