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Of the 2025 budget blueprint. | |
| It includes President Trump's agenda of cutting taxes and increasing border security and defense funding. | ||
| Members are also expected to begin debate on bills to repeal the EPA's oil and gas emissions fee and to repeal the Energy Department's water heater rule. | ||
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| And now look at that briefing earlier today with House Republican leaders on their 2025 budget blueprint. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| See? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So good morning, everyone. | ||
| I want to start with last week, videos of protesters yelling at members of Congress went viral, right? | ||
| But the content focused on the confrontation, not the why. | ||
| Some of the people that hijacked those town halls are happy with the bloated status quo. | ||
| They want the bloated status quo to continue. | ||
| They don't want to get our country back on track. | ||
| And to make matters worse, even the DNC chair openly suggested that the outrage at the town halls across the country was orchestrated. | ||
| But here's the truth. | ||
| Getting us out of nearly 37 trillion in debt, it's not going to be easy. | ||
| President Trump and White House and the White House Republicans have started the conversation on wasteful government spending. | ||
| And 77 million voices outweighed those voices at the town halls. | ||
| We got our marching orders. | ||
| We listened to the American people and they told us they wanted change. | ||
| And buckle up because that's exactly what we're giving them. | ||
| And our friends on the other side of the aisle, please keep going down the path of defending and even advocating for government waste, fraud, and abuse. | ||
| The message they all are sending is clear, and we see whose side they're on. | ||
| Look no further than their newest messaging strategy. | ||
| The minority leader unveiled it last week. | ||
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It's called Share Your Story. | |
| Can you guess whose story they're sharing? | ||
| It's government employees, like a locksmith from Yosemite National Park. | ||
| Not the stories of lives lost due to illegal immigration. | ||
| They're not asking to share those stories. | ||
| Not the stories of innocent lives that were lost due to fentanyl that came from across the border. | ||
| Not the stories of hardworking Americans struggling to make ends meet. | ||
| Democrats are sharing the stories of government employees and this sad attempt of fear-mongering that makes Democrats look even more deranged. | ||
| It is absolutely insane that they think making government work more efficiently is a bad thing. | ||
| Remember that government efficiency is a constitutional crisis in the Democrats' minds. | ||
| They continue to defend and advocate for waste, fraud, and abuse. | ||
| They don't want it to stop. | ||
| Democrats are ignoring the American people and siding with the swamp. | ||
| They keep defending DEI employees and USAID while Republicans fight the bloated and inefficient bureaucracy. | ||
| And we fight it for the American people. | ||
| For years, we've heard about delays at the IRS, lost Social Security checks, mistreatment at the VA. | ||
| Did the Democrats do anything about it? | ||
| Did they set up a listening session to have people tell their stories? | ||
| No. | ||
| I think they only care about Washington and bloated bureaucracy in D.C. | ||
| It is truly a shame, despite the American taxpayers' wishes. | ||
| They're doubling down on the broken system, and they are the ones that broke it. | ||
| While Democrats keep displaying their derangement, telling out-of-touch stories, let's talk about those who can't tell their stories. | ||
| Like Lincoln Riley, who was raped and murdered by an illegal alien. | ||
| Did the Democrats tell their story? | ||
| How about Zach Cullen, who died of fentanyl poisoning? | ||
| Did the Democrats set up a hotline to listen to their stories? | ||
| Or how about a pastor in Michigan, Stephen Singleton, who was killed by an illegal immigrant? | ||
| Did they tell their stories? | ||
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No. | |
| And you know why? | ||
| They can't tell their stories because they're dead. | ||
| Yet Democrats are soliciting sob stories from bloated bureaucrats with six-figure salaries. | ||
| Give me a break. | ||
| Now, it's time for us to tell our story. | ||
| And that's what we're going to do. | ||
| We're going to turn our attention to this week. | ||
| House Republicans will focus on saving lives and taxpayer dollars. | ||
| And President Trump has been clear. | ||
| He wants one big, beautiful bill that unlocks his full agenda, not just part of it, everything. | ||
| And that's what our one big, beautiful bill does. | ||
| This week, House Republicans will take the next steps in the process to deliver President Trump's full agenda. | ||
| The House budget resolution invests in border security and our national defense. | ||
| It also saves taxpayer dollars by rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse. | ||
| It will encourage investment in the energy industry to increase production and to actually lower costs. | ||
| If we don't pass this bill, Americans will suffer the largest tax increase in history. | ||
| The Budget Committee passed it with unanimous GOP support. | ||
| And remember, this is just the starting point to unlock the process. | ||
| After the resolution passes, committees will begin the real work, the work to find savings and create investments, savings in our budget to make America competitive and investments to make our country secure. | ||
| That's what the President and the American people want. | ||
| And who would go against their agenda? | ||
| We're helping the President keep his promise because the American people gave us a decisive mandate. | ||
| Secure the border, unleash American energy, restore peace through strength, and make America competitive again. | ||
| If we remain united, we can pass this transformational legislation. | ||
| And when we do, we will be remembered as the most successful conference in American history. | ||
| I will now turn it over to Rep. Tim Moore from North Carolina to speak about the budget as he serves on the budget committee. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
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Thank you, Mayor. | |
| Excuse me, sir. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
| I appreciate the opportunity to join the Republican leadership team today in support of this House budget resolution that puts America back on the path of fiscal responsibility and economic prosperity. | ||
| Before coming here, I guess I've been a member about, what, six weeks so far? | ||
| It feels a lot longer, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| The time I've been here, I've had the opportunity to see how things work, but for 22 years as a member of the State House, 10 years as Speaker of the State House, I had a part in changing our budgets that made North Carolina one of the most competitive states in the country. | ||
| We took a budget shortfall and turned that into a surplus. | ||
| We cut taxes. | ||
| Frankly, we did a lot of the things that I'm seeing this leadership team work to try to do here at the national level. | ||
| And that success ultimately happened then and will happen here because we prioritize taxpayers, the real hardworking people and not bureaucrats. | ||
| You know, as a member of Congress, I want to help bring that same common sense attitude and track record that we did in the states here. | ||
| And I can tell you that all of the new members of Congress have come in with that same view of what can we do to help move the country in the right direction. | ||
| The American people spoke this year. | ||
| They spoke loudly. | ||
| President Trump is in the White House. | ||
| You have a Republican majority in the House, a Republican majority in the Senate. | ||
| And these bodies are ready to go to work to get this done. | ||
| This bill is a huge step forward in that direction, addressing energy independence, addressing the border, finally reining in out-of-control spending. | ||
| It's great to see this happening. | ||
| You know, they say the definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing over and over and over again to expect a different result. | ||
| Finally, finally, we see real change in Washington to get this spending under control. | ||
| And there's a lot of fear-mongering out there right now, people claiming that this is going to be cut and that's going to be cut. | ||
| Look, nobody's going to want to hurt hardworking American people. | ||
| That's not anywhere in here. | ||
| Those are, frankly, just lies that some folks are telling. | ||
| This bill is going to rein in wasteful spending. | ||
| It's going to rein in fraud. | ||
| It's going to rein in abuse. | ||
| It's going to do all those things. | ||
| And I just want to give a shout out to the leadership team really for being so engaging. | ||
| I can tell you as a new member of Congress that every member has been invited to be a part of this process. | ||
| We've had weeks and weeks and weeks, I believe, of the listening sessions being fully briefed. | ||
| And I can tell you that Chairman Arrington on the budget committee really worked very hard to reach out to everyone to make sure everyone's voices were included. | ||
| So I'm proud to be here with the leadership team today and proud to be in support of this budget bill. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| What the job did on November 5th, 77 million Americans gave Donald Trump a mandate to deliver on our America First agenda. | ||
| Americans voted to secure our borders, unleash American energy, grow the U.S. economy and bolster our great military and prevent the largest tax hike in American history. | ||
| They voted to make America great again by reversing the damage Joe Biden and Kamala Harris did to our country over the last four years. | ||
| And House Republicans have put forward a budget that establishes a clear path to do just that. | ||
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Now is the time to act and get a budget over to the Senate. | |
| And it's important to remember that our budget resolution merely unlocks the opportunity for committees to begin drafting legislation. | ||
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That is where the real work is going to begin. | |
| So I'd caution the media against echoing Democrats' hysteria on where savings will come from. | ||
| Our budget resolution is a blueprint to save America and rein in reckless and wasteful spending while delivering on President Trump's campaign promises. | ||
| We have been given a historic opportunity with a Trump trifecta, and every member of our conference plays an important role in ensuring that we get it done. | ||
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This is our moment. | |
| Now it's time to go out there and do it. | ||
| And I turn it over to our majority leader, Steve Scleese. | ||
| Thank you, Whip. | ||
| It's a really important week. | ||
| When you think about what we've laid out in our agenda, the culmination of months of work has gone into what we are doing this week to finally start delivering on the mandate that President Trump, House Republicans, and Senate Republicans were given by voters across the country in November. | ||
| Voters said they want a secure border. | ||
| We deliver in this budget that we're going to pass this week. | ||
| Voters said they don't want a tax increase. | ||
| And believe me, that was on the ballot because Donald Trump said, I want to keep the 2017 tax cuts in place. | ||
| We don't want an increase for anybody, and we want to build on it. | ||
| He added more things. | ||
| Kamala Harris said she wants those tax cuts to expire, resulting in a multi-trillion dollar tax increase on the American people. | ||
| The voters decided very clearly with President Trump they don't want that tax increase to hit. | ||
| We deliver that in this budget. | ||
| The American people said in November they want more American energy to be produced. | ||
| We deliver in this budget and we do a lot of other things too. | ||
| But it all starts by getting this budget passed. | ||
| And so as you watch this process start, you would think the Democrats would want to be joining with us in recognizing that the American people asked for all these things that we're going to be doing. | ||
| But what are the Democrats doing? | ||
| They're all going to vote no. | ||
| Every Democrat will vote no on this budget. | ||
| Now, they're not going to go to the American people and be truthful and say why they're voting no. | ||
| They want Washington to keep more of your money so that you don't get that money back. | ||
| They want a multi-trillion dollar tax increase. | ||
| They said it during the campaign and they lost, but they still want that tax increase so they will all vote no. | ||
| They don't want a secure border. | ||
| They said it for the last four years. | ||
| They still haven't accepted the results of the election. | ||
| So what do they do if they can't deal with the truth? | ||
| They've got to lie. | ||
| Just listen to what you've been hearing the last couple of days. | ||
| Some of you have even been reporting it. | ||
| I'm going through the budget. | ||
| This is the House Republican budget that was passed unanimously by Republicans. | ||
| Every Democrat voted no. | ||
| Go through this entire bill. | ||
| Do you know that for every Democrat talking point where they talk about the horrible things that this budget's going to do, they talk about Medicaid cuts. | ||
| Everybody's going to be thrown, according to Democrats, into all these These horrible situations, there's only one problem. | ||
| The word Medicaid is not even in this bill. | ||
| This bill doesn't even mention the word Medicaid a single time. | ||
| And yet all Democrats are doing is lying about what's in the budget because they don't want to talk about the truth of what we're voting to start. | ||
| We're voting to start a process. | ||
| This doesn't end the process. | ||
| This allows 11 committees in Congress to go in open view on C-SPAN. to have hearings in March where you can all watch, you can all hear the debate, you can watch the amendments fly back and forth, where we're going to be debating how government can work better for the people of this country, how we will deliver as Republicans on the promises that were made and the mandate was given by the voters in November. | ||
| And Democrats are against all of that. | ||
| And so instead of just sitting back and licking their wounds that they're completely out of touch with the American people, their only choice is to resort to lying about what's in this vote today. | ||
| There is no Medicaid in this bill. | ||
| There are no Medicaid cuts in this bill, yet that's all they're saying. | ||
| They're talking about millionaires and billionaires. | ||
| Now they're just talking about Elon Musk. | ||
| Democrats are so infatuated with Elon Musk that they will vote against low tax rates for hardworking middle-class families. | ||
| Do you know that the last time we checked, Elon Musk does not work for tips? | ||
| But you know who does? | ||
| Millions of hardworking Americans that will get the no tax on tips promise that President Trump made that we will deliver on starting with the passage of this budget. | ||
| Millions of Americans will benefit from that provision that we're going to add into our reconciliation bill. | ||
| Do you know the average pay for a tip worker in America? | ||
| The average pay is $32,000. | ||
| And we will be helping millions of those families who average $32,000 so that they don't have to pay tax on tips or they don't have to have the 87,000 new IRS agents that Biden added going after them, trying to get them to pay thousands more in taxes when all they're trying to do is put food on the table for their families, working two or three jobs. | ||
| Again, that's not Elon Musk we're talking about. | ||
| That's millions of families who average $32,000 a year that Democrats will be voting against helping. | ||
| They will be voting Democrats against helping millions of small businesses in America. | ||
| Over 130 million families in America will see their individual tax rates go up when Democrats hit the red button and vote no on this budget. | ||
| But House Republicans are committed to defending those families, to standing up for those families, to stopping a tax increase from hitting those families. | ||
| The corporate rate is already locked in. | ||
| It's a permanent rate at 21%. | ||
| So we're not talking about the big multinational corporations. | ||
| They are, they're lying, talking about millionaires and billionaires when millionaires and billionaires aren't even 1% of who benefits. | ||
| 99% of the people that would see a tax increase with a no vote are people that make less than a million dollars, less than a million dollars. | ||
| That's who Democrats want to see a tax increase on. | ||
| While they lie and use the names of billionaires, they're going to be kicking in the gut the hardworking people of America. | ||
| We don't want that to happen. | ||
| That's why we're going to move this budget and start this process and start delivering on the mandate that we were all given. | ||
| And the man who's been the most patient person I know, listening to everybody who's got every issue, and I know a lot of you are saying, oh, gee, Wiz, do you have the votes? | ||
| Are you going to vote? | ||
| And, you know, I've heard this guy as a no. | ||
| Every big vote we've taken, and I've been the whip before, I've been the minority whip, majority whip, majority leader. | ||
| Every time we've had a big vote on the House floor, we're talking to members all the way up until the moment the vote closes. | ||
| During the vote, we're talking to members. | ||
| Go look at every big vote we've had. | ||
| Today is no different. | ||
| Sure, we're still talking. | ||
| We talked to the Speaker and I were in a meeting last night for over an hour talking to a lot of members that had questions. | ||
| We ended that meeting with every one of them finishing as a yes vote. | ||
| We still have more conversations to have today, just like we do on any day of any big vote. | ||
| So we're not going to stop working because millions of people are counting on us to deliver for them the mandate they gave us. | ||
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Introduce to you, the Speaker of the House. | |
| Well, thank you so much. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
| It's a big day in America, a big day on Capitol Hill. | ||
| I'm glad to see full participation by the media and the press corps here this morning. | ||
| A lot going on. | ||
| I want to thank the leadership team for their extraordinary work and their patience. | ||
| This has been going on for quite some time to prepare us for this day, this week, and the consequential actions that we'll be taking as a House Republican majority to move this ball forward. | ||
| We'll talk about it a little bit. | ||
| I want to thank also Representative Tim Moore, very talented member for North Carolina's 14th District. | ||
| And if he sounds like he's done this before, he has. | ||
| He was the Speaker of the House in North Carolina for 10 years. | ||
| And he's an example of the high caliber of a freshman class, the new members, new House Republicans who have joined us, doing extraordinary work. | ||
| And he took on the heavy load early on in the budget committee. | ||
| It's not an easy assignment, but I thank him for that work and all of our colleagues, Chairman Jody Arrington and all the budget committee members who have been working so hard. | ||
| Before we get to that, let me just say last week marked one month of the Trump administration. | ||
| It's just been a month. | ||
| It seems like much longer than that because so much has been accomplished. | ||
| What a difference the last 30 days have made. | ||
| America, once again, has a real leader in the White House, and you see the effects. | ||
| He's taking action to make America safer, stronger, and more efficient. | ||
| And we are delivering on our campaign promises. | ||
| It was not just the promises of President Trump, it was the promises of House Republicans. | ||
| And just as we promised, I was on the campaign trail all last year, as you know, went all around the country, and I told them these things would happen. | ||
| Just as we promised, by using his executive authority and instructing federal agencies to follow the law, illegal border crossings are now down dramatically. | ||
| And you've heard some of the numbers. | ||
| Illegal alien encounters are down 87 percent. | ||
| Known gotaways are down 93 percent. | ||
| This is what real leadership looks like. | ||
| And deportations of violent, illegal aliens are well underway, as you know. | ||
| In other areas, just as we promised, on the world stage, America is showing strength again. | ||
| We maintain peace through strength. | ||
| That's a core principle of our party. | ||
| President Trump understands that. | ||
| He more than understands it. | ||
| He acts upon it. | ||
| Before he even took office, he secured a ceasefire agreement and return of hostages in Gaza. | ||
| Colombia quickly reversed. | ||
| They reversed their course and they vowed to accept citizens who were in America illegally from that country. | ||
| Canada and Mexico quickly agreed to bolster their border security. | ||
| Canada now has a border czar and they're going to help us make sure that fentanyl doesn't flow over that border. | ||
| Just as we promised, President Trump is making transformational change to the bloated federal bureaucracy. | ||
| Every single person understands the government is too big, it does too many things, and it does almost nothing very well. | ||
| We've got to fix that, and we will. | ||
| The Doge auditors are doing work that Congress has not been able to do because we could not crack the code. | ||
| We could not get inside these agencies to get the very important information that we have long needed. | ||
| But they have found tens of billions in waste, fraud, and abuse, and it's only been a month. | ||
| That process continues. |