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Mr. LEE of New York. It amazes me how out of touch we are in Washington. For months now, my constituents in western New York have been asking, where are the jobs, any jobs?
Well, according to this chart of job postings, we found out where they are: right here in Washington, D.C., as we continue to hire thousands of Federal bureaucrats. It's one of the only cities that's growing, and all for the wrong reasons.
It's appalling that we're continuing to grow the Federal Government while we're running a deficit of $1.18 trillion.
When I ran a business, you always had a budget, and you lived within it.
When you look around D.C., you see construction cranes all around the skyline. It's because we can't construct enough buildings to house all these Federal bureaucrats that we're now hiring when we have this deficit.
We have to stop this excessive spending and work together to create the right jobs in the right sectors.
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