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controlling our spending, whic is driving so much of th employee flashing that s impacting american people. inflation is coming down. not fast enough, though sure, not fast enough but it is coming down. we have more work to do we have more work to do. we must continue to have members of congress who can be affective members on this issu and on the economy speaker mccarthy has pu forth his debt ceiling bil which slashes a lot of program and a lot of things that are important to folks in th midwest. snap benefits and everything if you were the member o congress, would you vote i favor of that bill i think this debate i important. we must have this debate we must have this fight. when are we going to control spending in washington d.c.? if we can t do it in a regular order, then we have to do it i this debate. i think we should pass the deb ceiling to make sure we don default on the debt, but we ha to had this debate, we had t get back to a place where we are controlling our