Another shutdown is looming.
The end of the month marks the end of the fiscal year. If we can’t get our act together by then, we all know what happens: Hardworking Americans foot the bill for a dysfunctional circus they have nothing to do with.
To make matters worse, we were told to go home for the week—like this is all some sort of joke. I am disgusted by our lack of leadership, and I am outraged that we aren’t going to hunker down in that Capitol building to work through our differences and deliver the results we all promised the American people.
But let’s get one thing straight: Folks at home repeatedly ask me and my colleagues in Washington to stop spending money. We are $33 TRILLION in the hole. That number is difficult to come to grips with because you don’t even have enough dadgum hours in your life to count to it.
House Republicans just crunched the numbers to give us a blueprint that promises to balance the budget over the next 10 years. It has steep cuts because that is what’s required in this catastrophic mess, and it’s exactly where we need to go.
Our current situation is unsustainable, and our country will collapse if we continue spending money like there’s no tomorrow.
For that reason, I’m a “no” on any continuing resolution, which is basically a Band-Aid on a bullet hole. Let’s balance the budget and do right by the folks who sent us here. There’s no sense in kicking the can down the road with a quick fix that doesn’t get to the root of the problem: a total lack of responsibility in government spending.
Americans are already working overtime to make up for the unsustainable pressure of inflation. Is this really what we want to pass on to our children? An inherited future of debt and uncertainty?
Washington is in for a day of reckoning, and I pray we won’t be known as the generation that mortgaged our children’s future with fiscal insanity.
