'We Have To Start Spending Money On The Must-Haves': Dan Meuser Urges Support For Rescission Bill

In House floor remarks on Thursday, Rep. Dan Meuser (R-PA) spoke about the rescission bill.

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00:00President Biden, they expanded the federal government with an unprecedented $11 trillion

00:07in spending, $6 trillion of which has been added to the national debt. It needs to end.

00:14We voted to end it in H.R. 1. We're ending it in this package here today, and we won't

00:20stop fighting for taxpayers. With that, Mr. Speaker, I yield two minutes to the gentleman

00:25from Pennsylvania, Mr. Muser. The gentleman from Pennsylvania is recognized for two minutes.

00:30Thank you, Mr. Speaker, and I thank Chairwoman very much for her leadership. Mr. Speaker,

00:38let's set something straight about our tax cuts, so-called, for billionaires. There are less than

00:42800 billionaires in the United States of America. We kept taxes low for over 160 million Americans,

00:50and the Democrats all voted to increase taxes on 160 million Americans. As a matter of fact,

00:56most of those, Mr. Speaker, billionaires, over 70 percent, are huge Democrat donors.

01:04During President Trump's first term, we had pro-growth policies, a booming economy,

01:08and revenues increased. Then the Biden administration accelerated the deficit by those in the

01:14administration, by the way, that referred to themselves as the Politburo, who were actually

01:19running the administration. Service on the debt alone increased during that time from $400 billion

01:25in 2020 to nearly $1 trillion last year. That's why we must rein in irresponsible agencies.

01:32They've been taken over by ideologues, Mr. Speaker, doing things that are simply not in the interest

01:37of the people of the United States. USAID has done some good things, but they've also done things that

01:42were an enormous waste, totally inappropriate, and in fact, they lost the trust of the American people.

01:50Agencies like this need to be reformed. The American people aren't going to put up with it anymore.

01:55Why is the government still funding public television when most people have hundreds of channels,

01:59as has been mentioned, to watch their news or whatever they want to watch? Just because it's

02:03been around for 50 years, that's not reason enough. Unless we want to pass along $37 trillion and

02:10climbing of debt to our children, we have to start spending money on the must-haves, not on the nice-to-haves.

02:16And these stations are not only nice-to-have to some, they are not nice-to-have to most.

02:23And they are certainly not must-haves. So, Mr. Speaker, let's pass this rescission package.

02:28Let's get on our way to having some accountability for American people

02:31and codify President Trump's spending reductions into law. I yield back.

02:35The gentleman yields back. The gentlelady from North Carolina Reserves. The gentleman from Massachusetts.

02:40It says..