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In Support of Liheap

Floor Speech

Date: Dec. 11, 2025
Location: Washington, DC

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Mr. BELL. Mr. Speaker, winter is here, and families across the St. Louis region and the country are opening their utility bills with a knot in their stomachs.

Right now, reckless tariff policies and economic uncertainty out of the White House are driving up costs across the country and squeezing working people who are already stretched thin with higher prices at the grocery store, higher rent, and stagnant wages.

That is why, now more than ever, programs like the Low-Income Energy Assistance Program, LIHEAP, are so critical. Yet earlier this year, the Trump administration wanted to eliminate LIHEAP, a program that supports over 200,000 people in my home State of Missouri.

We should be focused on lowering costs and strengthening essential programs, not cutting critical, lifesaving programs that people rely on to stay warm in the winter.

Heating a home is not a luxury, and families in St. Louis should not be left out in the cold.

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