Jodey Arrington Claims The 'American People Are For' The Republicans' Big Beautiful Bill

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At a House Rules Committee hearing on Tuesday, Rep. Jodey Arrington (R-TX) spoke about support for the Big Beautiful Bill.

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00:00Arrington, I welcome your testimony. Well the ranking member knows how to get me

00:06off topic here. I've got a prepared set of remarks but I'm just gonna speak from

00:11my heart and I appreciate the opportunity to be back before this

00:16committee. A little like Groundhog Day because we've been covering this subject

00:21matter which is important to pour over for the American people but I gotta say

00:26that the the people from West Texas sent me here and especially in this last

00:32Congress to reverse the curse of the last four years. The lawlessness and chaos at

00:41the border that has devastated my home state of Texas and I would say probably

00:47communities in every state in the country because of the open border and the crime

00:52criminals and drugs that have been pouring in our communities. It is the

00:57most imminent national security threat to the country and the last president did

01:02not faithful faithfully uphold the laws of land nor did he take serious his

01:06constitutional mission to provide for a common defense. That has to change. It's

01:11changed on day one with a new commander-in-chief and we aim to give him

01:14the tools and resources to continue to do that job. Secondly, they all suffered from

01:22the 21% roughly regressive inflation tax. Why? Because of Democrats failed policies

01:31and their wild unbridled eight trillion dollars in deficit spending. I'm sure

01:37we'll have some good back and forth but let me be clear the American people and

01:42our great economy has suffered as a result of paying people not to work of taxing and

01:49regulating small businesses. And then of course spinning us into 40-year high

01:56inflation that hasn't gone over well for the people in West Texas. So they sent me

02:01here to make America stronger, safer and more prosperous and that's the mandate they

02:09gave our president. That's the mission I'm on and I'm gonna work every day to that end. I

02:18believe this bill gets us closer to that vision. I believe that the most

02:25important thing we can do is equip our sons and daughters to be safe and

02:28successful in providing a common defense. We're long overdue to invest in

02:34military readiness vis-a-vis our adversaries. There are lots of things that go

02:41into unleashing economic prosperity but a centerpiece of that is pro-growth tax policy.

02:46We had the highest levels of investment, job creation, repatriation of capital after

02:54the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, not to mention the lowest poverty rates and

02:58unemployment rates on record. So this was after the the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which

03:05by the way the people at the bottom half and in the bottom ten percent did far better

03:10than the top half and top ten percent in terms of wages, in terms of income and the

03:15top ten percent or the top one percent paid a greater share of taxes after the

03:19Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. So I think so much of this is misleading nonsense and

03:25ripping people off the safety net. My last comment is this, I heard quotes

03:30about the CBO and 7.8 million people being ripped off the safety net. Let me tell you

03:35who those people were according to the nonpartisan CBO. People here illegally,

03:40people ineligible, people who have access to other subsidized government

03:44health care programs and people who are work-capable but refuse to work. That's

03:49the, that's not me Mr. Reinking member, I assure you. It's the CBO, the same source

03:54that y'all quote ad nauseum about us ripping the safety net. Listen, the American

04:00people are for what we're doing. They're on our side. They don't want their tax

04:05dollars to flow to to to waste fraud and abuse. They want to help people and they

04:10want the program to help their fellow Americans into the future and none of

04:15this, none of this stuff is sustainable. None of it and we should do more. You're

04:20right about the debt. We should do more. That is an area that I think we have to do

04:24a lot more or it's going to undermine all of it. The economy, security, our

04:29leadership in the world, my children's future, all of it. And every party, both

04:34parties I should say, both parties have come up woefully short in that regard.

04:38And so I hope we can get a commitment from our Democrat colleagues, let's work

04:42together on those things that we know will not be done unilaterally and then

04:47we'll take a first good shot at cleaning up the waste, fraud, and abuse and the

04:51entitlements and the mandatory programs that are driving us closer to that

04:55dangerous and irreparable debt crisis. With that I yield back Madam Chair.

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