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    Opinions 23 July 2024

    Delivering 12 of 12

    Under Article I of the Constitution, each fiscal year, the Appropriations Committees in both the House and the Senate are responsible for passing a series of twelve appropriations bills that regulate government expenditures and ensure the taxpayer dollar is being spent responsibly – a mission that is necessary in order for our federal government to properly function and something I care deeply about.
  • Opinions 25 April 2024
    Becoming the first Native American Appropriations Committee chairman
    On April 10, I was ratified by the House Republican Conference as the new chairman of the House Appropriations Committee – but not only did I just become the new chairman, I also became the first Native American to ever chair this Committee.
  • Opinions 21 February 2024
    Biden’s self-made border crisis
    In January of 2021, President Biden assumed the presidency with an aggressive immigration agenda. In just his first 100 days in office, he took 94 executive actions, including removing Title 42 and Remain in Mexico, halting border wall construction, and reinstating Catch-and-Release, in an attempt to make it easier for immigrants to illegally enter and stay in our nation.
  • Opinions 18 January 2024
    Unaffordable America
    Inflation is not only affecting individual Americans and American families, however. According to the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB), 23 percent of small business owners reported that inflation was their single most important problem in operating their business, up one point from last month. 
  • Opinions 14 January 2024
    Biden's lack of leadership at the border
    The national security threat and humanitarian risk posed by the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border has brought our country to an important crossroads. It is far past time that we address President Joe Biden’s self-made border disaster, support our customs and border patrol (CBP) agents and provide reasonable reforms to a broken immigration system.
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