Rep. McClain Delivers Floor Speech on SOTU

Statement

Today, Rep. Lisa McClain (R-MI) delivered a speech on the House floor in response to the State of the Union address.

For video of the remarks, click here.

The speech, as prepared, is below.

Madam Speaker, the state of our union is atrocious.

There are crises everywhere we look: record high inflation; record high illegal border crossings; a supply chain crisis that has stalled our economy; soaring energy prices; a devastating and deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan, an emboldened Russia trying to overthrow a sovereign country and a democratic ally, Ukraine.

This is what a full year of complete Democratic control and failure has brought the American people and the President has it completely backwards. The policies he and his congressional democrat allies have pushed haven't gotten us out of these crises, they've gotten us in to these crises.

The speech we saw last night was completely detached from reality.

What the American people are hearing from Democrats is not what they are seeing andwhat they are experiencing. They can no longer afford to suffer from the crises brought on by incompetent, arrogant, and out of touch leader.

Sadly, the speech last night indicates this Administration only plans to double down on their nonsense and spread lies and misinformation to the American people.

Instead of manufacturing accomplishments to talk about at the state of the union, like the convenient overnight change of the science, or should I say political science, to end the pandemic that my fellow Republicans and I have said for months.

President Biden needs to own up to all the problems he has created and come up with real solutions to get our country back on track, or he can always call me and I would be happy to teach him a lesson or two on how to fix a problem.

Thank you, I yield back.

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