Delivering Results

They said it couldn’t be done. The naysayers swore up and down for the last 2 months that Republicans would never be able to get all 12 appropriations bills done to avoid a shutdown. Yet that’s exactly what we did this week. 

With the passage of the final funding bills we had left to take up, including critical funding for Transportation, Defense and Homeland Security, the House completed all 12 appropriations bills. As soon as the Senate acts, it will ensure there is no shutdown come January 30th, which is very welcome news.

Under Republican leadership, the House is moving back towards a Member-driven, Committee-driven process that works on individual funding bills, so we don’t get saddled with one giant bill at the 11th hour. It’s critical because it helps ensure that we can control spending and enact the President’s agenda. 

In fact, that’s exactly what we’re doing—cutting the Biden-era waste, fraud and abuse and investing in the things our government should do and should do well. Our troops will get a well-earned pay raise, and the bill ensures that we have the resources needed to defend our country. We’re also hiring and training more air traffic controllers and continuing to modernize our radar systems, so the flying public gets to their destination safely and without delay, something I was proud to get started in the Working Families Tax Cuts bill. Just as important, these bills make critical investments in roads and bridges across the country, and specifically across North Missouri, something we’ll also focus on in the upcoming Highway Bill that I am writing.

To get back on the path to fiscal sanity though, we must spend less, and that’s exactly what we’re doing, coming in below Biden-era levels. We’re codifying the President’s mission to reduce the size of government and cutting bureaucracy, while also getting rid of wasteful Green New Deal programs, like EV charger funding and high-speed rail. We’re also clawing back the egregious IRS funding that was designed to target regular Americans with more burdensome audits. 

The only way to get our country back on track is to get rid of wasteful spending, while making smart investments, so our country can grow and prosper.  After all, it’s your tax money, and it should be used wisely. I’m committed to ensuring that happens, as we get rid of the waste and fund the things that matter to North Missouri.

Sincerely,

Sam Graves