Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024

Floor Speech

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Mr. BURLISON. Madam Speaker, I think that this bill defies any kind of objective understanding of the reality of the situation that we are in.

We are at $34 trillion in debt. It is the highest debt-to-GDP that we have experienced in the history of the United States of America, higher than we experienced after World War II, and we just left a war.

Today, we are at that same level of debt-to-GDP, and yet we are facing potential wars. This situation is the greatest threat to national security that there is. To add more debt onto this Nation is only risking us even further.

Our border is a threat to national security, and yet we are doing very little to actually fix it in this bill. No matter how much we talk about some of the things that are in the bill, at the end of the day, I hear expressions like this, as the swamp people say: Somebody has got to govern.

Within that statement, therein lies the false pretense that government is the solution to our problems. Government is the problem.

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