Spartz
On Thursday, Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-Ind.) sent a letter to President Joe Biden, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) urging them to come to a bipartisan consensus to move the needle with real dollar savings, not gimmicks of accounting, in federal spending and establish an actionable select committee process to deal with the federal budget.
“Speaker Randall warned us about 150 years ago that if our budgeting process involves too many committees and becomes too convoluted, we will ‘find the treasury of the country bankrupt,’” Rep. Spartz wrote in the letter. “The House did not listen and incurred some of the largest peacetime deficits. 100 years ago, the House exercised leadership, urged members ‘to submerge ambitions for the public good,’ and reformed the budgeting process to get spending under control. The time has come now for our leaders to become statesmen – not politicians, grow a backbone and reform our budgeting and spending.”
Click here to read the full letter.