Foreign overnight the U.S hitting its debt limit treasury secretary Janet Yellen warning the government could delay payments as the White House refuses to budge on its spending plans here to react Republican Texas Congressman Wesley hunt good morning to you.
Good morning how are you doing this morning we're doing well we wanted to get your reaction on this where do we go from here what happens and why does the government get to keep spending as Americans we have credit cards we have limits you can't spend once you hit your limit well we see the numbers already 31.
Trillion dollars in debt and then we pass this 1.7 trillion dollar monstrosity plus the 1.5 trillion dollars in covet spending at some point enough is enough and the Democrats response to this was what 87 000 IRS agents and I'm here to tell you that we don't have a tax revenue problem it's clear that we have a spending.
Problem I can tell you one thing here in Houston's Congressional District 38 that I represent my answer is a hard no on raising the debt ceiling I have a three week old boy at my house I have a four-year-old daughter and a two-year-old daughter and I'm here to tell you that I am not going to pass this on to them and at some point we.
Have to take a look at this and say spending has got to stop we've got to get our house in order and I think you hit the nail on the headings We As Americans actually have to balance our budget every single year and they expect that from our government as well yeah we're all learning to deal with it we go to the grocery store everything's more.
Expensive we can't buy certain items and we've learned to handle that as American households but our governments can't seem to do this I want to also talk to you about Judiciary Committee you were just placed on it congratulations and the investigations I know Republicans have a lot on the table they want to investigate is the handling Joe Biden's.
Handling of the classified documents on your list and how will you investigate that it most certainly is and I'm really looking forward to working with Congressman Jordan in a not so distant future to get to the answers that the American people want to see and what we've seen from Joe Biden over the.
Course of the past few years is a derelict of Duty and is handling is handling of classified information but we didn't start this fire the Democrats did when they raided president Trump's home and we all saw the images of the FBI sitting in front of his home they are the ones that started this but my dad used to always tell me it's all good.
And fun because the rabbit got the gun and now that we are in charge of Judiciary I can assure you that we're going to get to the answers that the American people want for the mishandling of the classified information that we have seen from President Joe Biden when is that going to happen hopefully as soon as possible I believe.
We start meetings next week I'm flying back to D.C on Monday and I could tell you that we are very excited to get to the bottom what's happening at the border what's happening with Hunter Biden and what's happening with the with the handling of this classified uh documents from from our current president okay Congressman thank you for.
Joining us God bless you thank you so much have a great day thank you and congratulations on your baby boy oh thank you so much we're excited it's such a fun time that's great thank you great to see you I'm Steve Ducey I'm Brian Kilmeade and I'm Ainsley Earhart and click here to subscribe to the Fox.
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