Issue Position: Balancing our Budget

Issue Position

Whether it's your family, your farm, or your business, balancing your budget is essential. No person or business can survive in extended debt, and neither can your country. Unfortunately your government is consistently spending far more than it's taking in. In 2015 the government borrowed almost $1.5 billion a day, and the national debt is quickly closing in on $20 trillion. We are leaving the next generation with a legacy of debt that will be impossible to overcome. In order to ensure our country doesn't go the way of Greece, we need drastic changes now.

Congress must make the tough decisions necessary to balance the budget, which will require reforms to spending on both mandatory and discretionary programs. At the same time, Congress must also take actions to help our economy grow. In the seven years that I was a State Representative, we crafted and passed a balanced budget each and every year. Washington should too. The first bill I introduced in Congress was a Balanced Budget Amendment to our Constitution. At the end of 2015 I opposed a massive government funding bill which busted budget caps and failed to reduce the out-of-control EPA's funding by even one dollar.

Washington must stop its chronic debt problem. The only way to do this is by balancing the budget.

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