I'm sounding the alarm.

At a bare minimum, the “One Big Beautiful Bill” shouldn’t INCREASE the annual deficit. With the meager spending reductions being discussed, I’m afraid it actually will. We must return to a reasonable pre-pandemic level of spending.

I ran in 2010 because we were mortgaging our children's future.

If someone in your family had an illness, and you had to borrow $50,000 for medical bills, would you keep borrowing that amount of money every year even after the health crisis has passed? That is what America is doing.

In 2019, America spent $4.4 trillion. Now we are up to $7 trillion. The "One Big Beautiful Bill" is a big complex bill that doesn't address our spending problem.

We have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reset spending that has been exploded by Democrats. What President Trump and Elon Musk did with DOGE is brilliant. They exposed all this waste, fraud, and abuse within the federal government. They've also exposed how oblivious we are to it. We need to codify their work.

Please read my latest op-ed in The Wall Street Journal to understand why I’m asking the president and congressional leaders to reconsider a multistep strategy on budget reconciliation.

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