Promoting Physical Activity for Americans Act

Floor Speech

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Ms. CHU. Madam Speaker, I rise today in support of doing what every adult is expected to do: pay their bills. That means raising the debt limit.

Let's be clear: this is not about new spending. This has nothing to do with any of our plans for new investments in infrastructure. Those plans are all paid for through other means. When we raise the debt ceiling, it is so we can pay the bills for money we have already spent. That means the reason we need to raise the debt ceiling right now is to pay Donald Trump's bills--which, as usual, he would rather leave unpaid.

Under the last administration, the deficit grew every year, totaling over $7 trillion in debt increases, requiring Congress to raise the debt ceiling three times.

And why was that?

Because the 2017 GOP tax scam used the reconciliation process to spend $2 trillion on tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy that were not paid for. The American people were told that the tax cuts would pay for themselves, but that was a lie. And now the bill comes due. Again.

But this time the Republicans are refusing to even allow a vote. It is not that they are choosing to vote ``no'', which would be their prerogative, even if it is political and insincere. Instead, they are filibustering to prevent us from even voting to stop the U.S. from defaulting; something they all said would be terrible.

We are not children who flip a game over when we lose. It is our responsibility to pay the government's bills no matter who is in charge.

Madam Speaker, if you can vote to give tax cuts to billionaire amateur astronauts like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, then you can vote to pay the bill for it. It is that simple.

Madam Speaker, I urge my colleagues to support this legislation.

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