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Posted on 08/25/2023 5:00:17 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
On Thursday’s broadcast of Fox News Radio’s “Brian Kilmeade Show,” Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL) responded to criticism of the trillions of dollars added to the national debt under former President Donald Trump by 2024 GOP presidential candidate former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley by stating that “that was COVID spending. That was emergency spending.” And now the unspent money needs to be clawed back and many members of Congress are doing so.
After listening to audio of Haley saying that fellow candidates, Sen. Tim Scott, former Vice President Mike Pence, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis voted to raise debt, Trump added to the debt, and the 2024 GOP budget is bloated with earmarks, Waltz said, [relevant remarks begin around 23:40] “Well, look, Nikki Haley had a strong night. She really did. I think she was one of the stars last night. But she knows, and Tim Scott came back, and so did Vice President Pence, that that was COVID spending. That was emergency spending. Now, I’m in the Congress, and many of us are pulling that money back. The unspent money, we need to pull it back, apply it back to our debt. But she knows, under Trump, that that was emergency COVID spending that she was talking about.”
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I use the two stimulus checks for my cataract surgery..it was a God send...and couldn’t have done them without it.
But it didn’t cause inflation...
I was bring (SARC)
How about “clawing back” the billions in COVID money the Biden régime sent to scammers, illegal aliens, other unqualified people and foreign countries!
it’s early...i’m still dim...
lol
the biggest waste is climate change...
Government is not the answer
It’s not so much clawing it back as removing that spending from the baseline.
That program is probably the biggest waste of all. After, what can really be done about the climate, except to adapt the best you can. Adapting doesn’t necessarily require huge government expenditure trying to come up with some hokey schemes that won’t make any real difference in the climate. I’m starting to wonder if there is anyone in the Biden administration that ever got past the 3rd grade.
That program is probably the biggest waste of all. After, what can really be done about the climate, except to adapt the best you can. Adapting doesn’t necessarily require huge government expenditure trying to come up with some hokey schemes that won’t make any real difference in the climate. I’m starting to wonder if there is anyone in the Biden administration that ever got past the 3rd grade.
He was hammered and harassed until campaign season when they opened a bank account they had been feeding into (China, Fauci, Asian flu).
The pelosi/schumer dogs of Hades formulated and installed the mail in ballot scheme for the simple purpose of stealing the election, opening the way to shut down America with fear (which traditionally Americans should never have) . . . {I blame the public school system} . . . And because President Trump WAS riding high on legitimate accomplishments, he responded to the enemy by "wanting to do the right thing" and believing his acquiescence to the badgering would be relatively harmless, he got boxed in and made some foolish decisions.
THAT'S why they MUST get rid of him for 2024 . . He's battle scarred, strong and VERY pissed off.
We probably WILL have to import orange dye from China
The pandemic was one in a whole series of "government" actions which has threatened the nation.
A simple look to the data is telling, and makes Waltz' assertion a lie, not even a half-truth. An outright lie.
1995 -- 4,974 trillion USDWith our national debt nearing $33 trillion, a stated federal budget deficit of $1.4 trillion, as of August 2023 it costs more than $726 billion to maintain the debt, which is 14% of the total federal spending, these three massive NEGATIVES debt, deficit spending and interest costs are becoming a critical issue.
2000 -- 5,674 trillion USD
2005 -- 7,933 trillion USD
2010 -- 13,562 trillion USD
2015 -- 18,151 trillion USD
2020 -- 26,945 trillion USD
2022 -- 30,928 trillion USD
2023 at the end of August -- 32,724,446,243,576 USD and rising fast
32,724,446,243,576 USD and rising fast.Very, very fast.
The government has been lying, lying and lying, and such as employment rate and inflation rate announcements are part of that "big lie," Now all one need do is remember previous instances of a "big lie." The nation is in big trouble.
how many states received the enhanced unemployment $$$ and lost it due to fraud???
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