Republican support. look at this. it is not even 3 1/2 trillion dollars. the bill that passed out of the house budget committee just two weeks ago is actually 4.3 trillion dollars in spending. it s the largest spending bill in the history of the united states to ever be before congress. it is also the largest tax increase in the history of congress, with 2.1 trillion dollars worth of taxes. it adds 2.4 trillion dollars to the national debt. it s an atrocious bill. it only makes every crises that our country is facing even worse, whether it s the border crisis, whether it s the inflation crisis, whether it s the energy crisis. this bill alone will create amnesty to 10 million illegals. you mentioned inflation, and i want to point up some figures. just in the last year, they are fairly astounding, gas is up
Good and don t care what every single person that was beaten up and died before us to preserve and expand the rights in the constitution. if we don t fight like they fought and walk across a bridge in alabama and get beaten. rise up. have passion about this and make this not a fight whether it s $2.3 trillion or $4.3 trillion. it s a fundamental fight about the average person. can they live a life they want and grow into that life and can their children and grandchildren survive in this country? yeah. that s what this is about. you and i are on the same page. last question to you, how should we be talking to, let s say, young women who see this fight in texas as something distant from them because they don t plan on getting pregnant. they re not pregnant. they don t live in texas. how do we communicate what matthew talked about in a way that s passionate, not with he is hysterics but how do you
yeah. why would republicans want to cooperate in bankrupting the economy? why would republicans want to cooperate in raising taxes on working class americans? why would republicans want to cooperate in rewarding democrats political friends, allies and donors? that s exactly what this $4.3 trillion spending bill that they re trying to pass is doing. it s a tax and spend socialist dream list. and so no republican would want to cooperate and be a conspirator in this process. so the fact that they re wanting to continue to spend trillions and trillions more dollars on the backs of working class americans, we re not going to cooperate with that. griff: congressman, jacqui and your colleague, congressman price, were talking about is this about policy or purely numbers? how do you see it? now, griff, this is something that not a lot of people are talking about, and we need to give it more discussion. the numbers, for example, they
Could use budget gimmicks within the budget, with the budget operating process that they can bring a $4.3 trillion bill down to a $1.5 trillion bill by just changing the sunsetses and years and when it phases in. but if they keep those same policies, in fact, it may only be a $1.5 trillion bill for a year to two years, but, in fact, over a ten-year budget window it could cost $6-7 trillion. so when representative jayapal says it s all about the policies and not the numbers, she wants to keep everything that s within the current $4.3 trillion bill but just change the sunset so it s only one or two years and phase it in over a period of time so that they actually get a $7-8 trillion bill which is actually much worse than whats it is right now. griff: take me, congressman, to tuesday and this expected vote. how will your fellow republicans approach this, and how will you
Like i said, in every recent history, anytime you increase the debt limit there s some kind of spending reform. that s all we re asking. work with us in spending reforms before you increase the debt. griff: congressman, i read your commentaries from time to time, and i found your last one very interesting. you essentially said that when speaker pelosi what speaker pelosi began was a bipartisan negotiation that turned into a hostage situation is. then, you say, ultimately she shot the hostage. what do you mean there? she sure did, griff. you know, it started out with an infrastructure package that was being negotiated with biden, democrat and republican senators, house members. and then they could have passed this back in july. but instead, nancy pelosi held biden s feet to the fire and stood with the progressives and said we will not take a vote on this infrastructure package unless we get our separate $4.3