Balanced Budget Amendment

Floor Speech

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Mr. TROTT. Mr. Speaker, the President presented his budget yesterday,
and I am disappointed to say that it is just more of the same tax-and-
spend policies that we have seen over the past 6 years--$4 trillion of
spending, $2 trillion in new taxes, and more deficits for the next 10
years.

I have only been in Washington for a month, but the prevailing
message from the President seems to be that politicians know better
than the people, that Big Government is the solution, and that huge
deficits are just part of life. This experiment has failed and has hurt
the hardworking taxpayers in my district, who built our economy. Since
2009, the debt has grown from $10 trillion to $18 trillion. The new
budget has the debt at $26 trillion in 10 years, and interest payments
alone on our national debt will quadruple in the next 10 years.

Now more than ever we need a balanced budget amendment to our
Constitution. It is a simple concept: force the Federal Government to
live within its means. Families do it; businesses do it; cities,
counties, and States are doing it. I urge my colleagues to join me as
cosponsors of House Joint Resolutions 1 and 2.

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