Energy Independence

Floor Speech

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Mr. BURCHETT. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding.

President Biden's $7.3 trillion budget proposal for fiscal year 2025 is full of costly woke policies that will end up hurting the Americans who elected us to office.

Here are some of the things he wants. Mr. Speaker, $895 billion for defense--it comes as no secret in the history of audits that our Pentagon has never passed an audit. How did we punish them this last budgetary cycle? With $20 billion more. Of course, that is $9 billion more for defense than we spent this year. For the American Climate Corps--we are not sure what that is--there is $8 billion, and $3 billion for the State Department to advance gender equity and equality worldwide. Worldwide, Mr. Speaker.

President Trump asked for $4 billion to help secure the border, and we said he couldn't have it because, as our friends across the aisle said, that would bust the budget.

There is $1.5 billion for the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights.

There is so much more, but we don't have all day to go over every item.

President Biden also claims this budget would lower the deficit. We all know that is a lie but think about how that happens. If he is spending more money in lowering the deficit, it means he plans to significantly increase the government's revenue. How does he do that? He will do that by taking in more taxes.

His plan would raise taxes by nearly $5 trillion. Of course, he claims no one making less than $400,000 per year will pay more taxes, but we have seen what this promise has done so far in the past. If he is making companies pay more in taxes, these companies, of course, need to make up for the lost profit, so they charge us more for gas, food, energy, and other essentials we use every day.

To put it better, Mr. Speaker, companies collect taxes. That is what they do. Corporations collect taxes, and they pass it on to us.

Even if Americans don't pay more in taxes, they will pay for this plan somehow. It won't do them any good unless they want to get one of these new government jobs that will focus on climate change or diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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