Sep 24, 2023
Congressman Andy Biggs
Why A Continuing Resolution Puts America on a Suboptimal Path
My fellow Americans, do you think that we should keep Pelosi-Biden-Schumer spending together with the same policies that have given us inflation, wide open borders, energy dependency, woke military, and woke education, all while paying for Ukraine’s war machine, government, and pensions?
Continuing the current spending levels and policies is called a “Continuing Resolution” (CR). Every time a CR is used to bypass the required budget process, the profligacy of Congress is displayed with a spending spree that makes a drunken sailor look responsible. Our spending deficit persists and increases, while our national debt grows to tottering heights.
But, that’s the plan of some of my colleagues in Congress. Instead of pushing to pass individual spending bills that might give us a chance to break the cycle of deficit spending and exploding national debt, they advocate the same economic death spiral that Congress—both parties—have given us for many years.
And, where does that leave us? Within a few years our interest expense will be more than our military spending.
Think about the proposal we are facing: spending at levels that exceed our federal revenue by almost $2 trillion—not including our interest charges; spending tens of billions more for Ukraine—without an exit strategy; spending billions more to accelerate the processing of the millions of illegal aliens crossing our southern border; and, billions to replenish our emergency fund.
Right now, there are thousands of illegal aliens crossing into America every day, bringing fentanyl and other deadly drugs. Human smuggling and sex trafficking is being aided and abetted by the Biden logistic team. And, our colleagues will provide billions to them. For what purpose? To stem the flow, to disincentivize the pipeline of people coming illegally into the U.S.? …
https://townhall.com/columnists/congressmanandybiggs/2023/09/24/column-n2628868