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 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (TX-19) delivered opening remarks at the hearing “The Cost of the Biden-Harris Energy Crisis.”   … Read more »

President Ronald Reagan famously quipped, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: ‘I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.’ ” When I learned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service was proposing an unprecedented 1,000% expansion of the Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge in West Texas and eastern New Mexico, from 6,400 acres to 700,000 acres, alarm bells went off for several reasons. Read more »

Washington, D.C. – House Budget Chairman Jodey Arrington (TX-19) issued the following statement in response to a second attempted assassination against President Trump on Sunday: “While the Left continues to make ridiculous and caustic claims about Donald Trump being a threat to Democracy, he is absolutely a threat to their radical plans to fundamentally transform our country. “No… Read more »

Welfare Is What’s Eating the Budget Means-tested programs, not Medicare and Social Security, are behind today’s massive debt. … Read more »

Washington, D.C. – House Budget Chairman Jodey Arrington (TX-19) issued the following statement after voting in favor of H.R. 9456, the Protecting American Agriculture from Foreign Adversaries Act, of which Chairman Arrington is an original cosponsor to defend American farmland against foreign ownership and bolster national security: “Food security is national security. We must… Read more »

Washington, D.C. – Today, House Budget Chairman Jodey Arrington (TX-19) commemorated the 23rd anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. “23 years ago, nearly 3,000 Americans were killed and thousands more injured when terrorists carried out the worst attack on U.S. soil in the history of our country. “I was working in the White House on 9/11 and will never forget that fateful… Read more »

Washington, D.C. – Recently, 17-year-old Lubbock High School Senior Eliseo Jimenez walked more than 1,600 miles from Lubbock, Texas, to Washington, D.C. to advocate for Social Security reform and addressing the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP). This imprecise formula has resulted in public service employees, such as police officers, firefighters, and public-school teachers, losing out… Read more »

Washington, D.C. – Today, House Budget Chairman Jodey Arrington (TX-19) issued the following statement in response to special counsel Jack Smith’s latest indictment against former President Trump: “The blatant political persecution of President Trump and state-sanctioned election interference by the Biden-Harris Administration continues. The repeated law-fare and weaponization of the… Read more »

Washington, D.C. – Today, House Budget Chairman Jodey Arrington (TX-19) issued the following statement on the 3-year anniversary of the ISIS-K suicide attack at Kabul International Airport that killed 13 American servicemembers during the United States’ withdrawal from Afghanistan: “3 years ago, today, weeks of one of the most disastrous, embarrassing, self-inflicted… Read more »

“Congressman Bill Pascrell was a loud and proud voice for the people of New Jersey, and I always had great respect for him as a colleague and one of the most passionate and articulate members of the United States House. Bill was always willing to reach across the aisle for the betterment of our great country, and he will be missed by many, including one of his Republican colleagues on… Read more »