Earlier this week, U.S. Rep. Dale Strong (R-Huntsville) took to the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives to highlight Republican accomplishments at the 11-month mark of the White House and Capitol Hill under GOP leadership.
Transcript as follows:
Mr. Speaker, I rise to provide an 11-month update to the American people. While most media outlets struggle to be honest with the American people, under the administration of President Donald Trump, a Republican House, and a Republican Senate, America is back. It is a fact that inflation is down from 5% to 2.5%. Gas prices have hit a 4-year low, averaging $2.95 a gallon. Advanced manufacturing and industry are returning to U.S. soil. President Trump has secured over $8 trillion in investments that will fuel job growth and create opportunity. The stock market continues to set new all-time highs. It is a fact that Republicans are committed to making sure hardworking Americans keep more of what they earn.
The Working Families Tax Cut delivered the largest tax cut for middle- and working-class Americans in history, like no tax on tips and no tax on overtime. It is a fact that the southern border is closed. Drug dealers, sexual predators, human traffickers, and those who illegally invaded our country during the Biden administration from over 160 countries are being returned to the country of their origin. Under Biden, our emergency departments and local hospitals became the preferred free healthcare provider for illegal aliens, driving healthcare costs through the roof while the American taxpayers footed the bill.
We didn’t need legislation to put America first. We needed a new President. It is a fact that the spirit of cutting waste, fraud, and abuse is alive in Washington, D.C. Funds being sent to foreign countries that hate America have been cut off. Republicans cut $100,000 for climate resilience in Ghana; cut $360,000 for gender nonconforming, nonbinary, two-spirit farmers in New York; cut $24 billion to USAID; cut $22 billion from Health and Human Services to provide housing and cars for illegal aliens; cut $45 million for diversity, equity, and inclusion scholarships in Burma; cut $8 million to promote LGBTQ in Africa; cut $10 million for male circumcision in Mozambique; cut $20 million for the Arab ‘‘Sesame Street’’ in the Middle East; and we cut $600 million from National Public Radio. Free enterprise in America is alive and well.
President Donald Trump is the President of peace, ending eight wars in eight months. Tell me who in history has ever done this. The war between Israel and Hamas is over. The hostages were returned home. The Iranian nuclear program has been set back for decades, and the Middle East is more stable than it has been in years. To gain peace through strength, we have invested in America’s national defense. We have increased pay for our troops. We are making generational investments in our defense industrial base. We are filling our stockpiles. We are making our soldiers the most lethal fighting force the world has ever seen. We will never apologize for keeping America safe.
Thankfully, Mr. Speaker, the people of America are now seeing through Biden’s four years of smoke and mirrors here in D.C. It is a fact that the Clinton-Steele dossier was proven a hoax. It is a fact that the Department of Justice was weaponized against President Trump. It is a fact that the Democrats’ so-called Inflation Reduction Act raised the United States debt to more than $38 trillion. It raised inflation to its highest level in 40 years. It is a fact that Biden’s Green New Deal was nothing more than another scam on the U.S. taxpayers, and ObamaCare, known as the Affordable Care Act, is not affordable to anyone in America. It is a fact that Space Command is coming to Redstone Arsenal in north Alabama, and the Golden Dome is on the horizon.
It is a fact that President Trump and our Republican majority is making America better for the people. America is back.
Jeff Poor is the editor-in-chief of 1819 News and host of "The Jeff Poor Show," heard Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-noon on Mobile's FM Talk 106.5. To connect or comment, email [email protected] or follow him on Twitter @jeff_poor.
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